Talk:Border Gateway Protocol

History?

Seeking historical information including:

• When was it first written
• Who first used it
• What did it replace/superseded.

Thanks. -- GreenC 14:42, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, I came here looking to confirm that it is "still known as the three-napkin protocol" - can I suggest the following text:

The genesis of BGP was in 1989 when Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter were sharing a meal at an IETF conference. They famously sketched the outline of their new routing protocol on the back of some napkins, hence references to the “Two Napkin Protocol”.

- with this, and this, and this as a refs. Snori (talk) 04:25, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done I also added the CHM/Cisco referenced issue of The Packet as a reference. Since both CHM/Cisco references have the same author. I was unable to find the full issue of "The Packet", only the cover. --A5n (talk) 20:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

References

Correctness question - someone please take a look at this

"The main difference between iBGP and eBGP peering is in the way routes that were received from one peer are propagated to other peers. For instance, new routes learned from an eBGP peer are typically redistributed to all iBGP peers as well as all other eBGP peers (if transit mode is enabled on the router). However, if new routes are learned on an iBGP peering, then they are re-advertised only to all eBGP peers."

Shouldn't the bolded be iBGP, not eBGP? I'm not an expert but hoping an expert can chime in.

Qwertyca (talk) 22:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Absolutely not, the article is correct.

• eBGP → iBGP + other eBGP
• iBGP → eBGP

Propagating from iBGP to other iBGP is the job of a Route Reflector.

Symbol (talk) 20:04, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Internet Routing Architectures in Further reading

I am the son of the author of Internet Routing Architectures and have disclosed that relationship. Would an uninvolved editor consider adding the book to the Further reading section?

The book focuses on interdomain routing and BGP. It has also appeared in university networking literature lists, including this list from TU Wien.

Suggested entry:

• Halabi, Bassam (1997). Internet Routing Architectures. Cisco Press. ISBN 1-56205-652-2.

I leave the decision and citation formatting to uninvolved editors.

Meajoe (talk) 23:12, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Issue with "Spillover Effect"

The Spillover Effect cited is economical; is it truely supposed to be linked? ~2026-47573-58 (talk) 15:04, 2 September 2026 (UTC)