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Acee Lindem

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May 25, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/25/96
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vo...@oasis.IAEhv.nl (Frank Volf) writes:

>
> Hello,
>
> Currently we receive routing information using the RIP (v1) protocol from
> our ISP. Because of the growing complexity of our (and their) network
> our ISP wants us to use BGP-4 instead. Unfortunately I don't know anything
> about external routing protocols, therefore I have two questions:
>
> 1) Where can I get information about BGP-4 (recomended books, papers,
> documents etc.)?

Try RFC 1771 and the GateD html documentation. Or, if you want the basics,
look at "TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1" by Stevens (chapter 10) or "Routing
in the Internet" by Huitema (Part III).

>
> 2) Is the BGP-4 support in gated 3.5B3 stable enough for complex network
> environments?

Definitely - there are ISPs which use GateD BGP-4. However, I'd hardly call
this a complex network environment - you advertise your CIDR block(s) to
the ISP and advertises DEFAULT back to you.


Acee

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