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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 3

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So far in this series we’ve looked at a number of basic concepts about BGP, covering both who would want to use it and why. Advertise your routes to those providers, for them to advertise in turn to others (for transit connectivity) or just use internally (in the case of peers). Autonomous Systems and ASNs. eBGP vs. iBGP.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 2

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In part 1 of this series, we established that BGP is the protocol used to route traffic across the interconnected Autonomous Systems (AS) that make up the Internet. We’ll continue on that path in this post, adding more concepts and digging deeper into how BGP works and what makes it of value. Advertising Routes.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1

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BGP Basics: Routes, Peers, and Paths. Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Routes and Autonomous Systems.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 4

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Further Thoughts on Advertising Your Routes with BGP. In Part 3 of this BGP routing tutorial, we looked at how to establish peering sessions with neighbor networks. If you’ve only got a single upstream service provider, why might you want to bother speaking BGP to them?