Subject: newbie question on BGP

From: Spice Sylvia <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:45:14 +0100 (BST)

Hello, I wanted to get this clarified from some of the people who were involved when BGP deployment was happening. Can you please clarify as to what BGP was made to do? Was it never meant to be run on all routers in an AS?  It does behave a lot like RIP except that there might now be a bandwidth as a metric, but as someone told me, it would still learn "by rumor" except in full mesh scenarios.  Is learning "by rumor" a topological issue? Is it a problem if a routing protocol learns by rumor if the updates and the source of the update are immediately propogated? -S.F. 

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