Exterior Gateway Protocol

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The Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) was a routing protocol used to connect different autonomous systems on the Internet from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, when it was replaced by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

History

EGP was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman in the early 1980s. It was first described in RFC 827[1] and formally specified in RFC 904.[2]

RFC 1772 outlined a migration path from EGP to BGP.[3]

References

  1. Rosen, Eric (October 1982), Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), IETF, doi:10.17487/RFC0827, RFC 827, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc827, retrieved 2 Sep 2020 
  2. Mills, David (April 1984), Exterior Gateway Protocol Formal Specification, IETF, doi:10.17487/RFC0904, RFC 904, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc904, retrieved 2 Sep 2020 
  3. Rekhter, Yakov; Gross, Phill (March 1995), Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet, IETF, doi:10.17487/RFC1772, RFC 1772, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1772, retrieved 2 Sep 2020 

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