
Configuring IP Exterior Gateway Protocols (BGP and EGP)
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In the neighbor reachability phase, EGP is responsible for monitoring and
maintaining an established EGP neighbor relationship between two routers. Its
purpose is to ensure that the neighbors are operational and can provide reliable
network reachability information. Two neighbors will be able to exchange
network reachability information only if they are both in the up state and know
that they are both in the up state. This is the point at which neighbor reachability is
positively determined.
In the network reachability phase, EGP is responsible for determining which
networks are reachable through two EGP neighbors; that is, it provides the
network reachability information. This information provides a list of gateways,
the networks those gateways can reach, and their associated distances.
Two neighbors determine network reachability by exchanging poll messages and
routing update responses as follows:
• The active neighbor sends a poll message to a passive neighbor that it already
knows to be reachable. The poll message requests routing information from
the passive neighbor.
• The routing update response contains the routing information (the list of
gateways on the common network, the networks they can reach, and
associated distances). Both active and passive neighbors can send routing
update messages. The active neighbor usually sends a routing update response
after it sends a poll message. The passive neighbor usually sends a routing
update response in response to a poll message.
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