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BGP

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌbiː dʒiː ˈpiː/abbreviationAdvanced term

In software engineering, BGP means: Short for Border Gateway Protocol: the routing protocol that networks on the internet use to exchange routes with each other, so that traffic can find its way between different operators and companies.

In Turkish: Sınır Ağ Geçidi Protokolü, BGP

How it is used

Spelled out letter by letter. Engineers set up BGP sessions with ISPs, advertise prefixes, filter routes and watch for BGP sessions going down. Each network is identified by an autonomous system number (ASN). Mistakes in BGP can make large parts of the internet unreachable.

Example sentences

  1. We have BGP sessions with two ISPs, so if one fails, traffic moves to the other.

  2. A wrong BGP announcement sent our traffic through another country for an hour.

Common collocations

  • BGP session
  • BGP peer
  • advertise a prefix
  • BGP routing
  • BGP neighbour
  • routingThe process of choosing the path that traffic takes from one network to another, carried out by routers using routes that are either entered by hand or learned from other routers.
  • OSPFShort for Open Shortest Path First: a routing protocol used inside one organisation's network, where routers share information about their links and each one calculates the best path itself.
  • routing tableA list stored in a router or host that shows which networks it knows about and where to send packets for each one, such as the next router or an outgoing interface.

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