Sessions And Peers - Dell Force10 C150 Configuration Manual

Figure 10-2. Full Mesh Examples
4 Routers
6 Routers
8 Routers
The number of BGP speakers each BGP peer must maintain increases exponentially. Network
management quickly becomes impossible.

Sessions and Peers

When two routers communicate using the BGP protocol, a BGP session is started. The two end-points of
that session are Peers. A Peer is also called a Neighbor.
Establishing a session
Information exchange between peers is driven by events and timers. The focus in BGP is on the traffic
routing policies.
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