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authorChristian Poessinger <christian@poessinger.com>2019-11-17 19:58:18 +0100
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-.. _routing-bgp:
+.. _bgp:
-Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
------------------------------
+BGP
+---
+
+:abbr:`BGP` stands for Border Gateway Protocol. The latest BGP version is 4.
+BGP-4 is one of the Exterior Gateway Protocols and the de facto standard
+interdomain routing protocol. BGP-4 is described in :rfc:`1771` and updated by
+:rfc:`4271`. :rfc:`2858` adds multiprotocol support to BGP-4.
IPv4
^^^^