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II-1-8 BGP
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized protocol designed to exchange routing and
reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet.
The protocol TCP is used by two routers supporting BGP for data transmission. They can exchange
the BGP routing information for each other. A BGP router is the "neighbor" of other BGP routers.
Define the IPv4/IPv6 address, AS number for the router is essential for TCP connection of BGP
routing information exchange.
AS, the abbreviation of Autonomous System, is a group interconnected with multiple IPv4/IPv6
addresses. Each AS shall be assigned with one AS number (ASN). The ASN is a unique identifier for
AS to distinguish each network group in the whole interconnected network. It can be operated by
one or several ISPs and follows the routing policies made by ISP.
II-1-8-1 General Setup
Set general settings for for local router and neighboring routers.
Available settings are explained as follows:
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