EGP Gateway under Berkeley UNIX 4.2 (RFC0911)
Original Publication Date: 1984-Aug-22
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Abstract
This report describes an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol that runs under the Unix 4.2 BSD operating system. Some issues related to local network configurations are also discussed.
Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 911
EGP GATEWAY UNDER BERKELEY UNIX 4.2
PAUL KIRTON
University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Visiting Research Fellow from Telecom Australia Research Laboratories
22 August 1984
ABSTRACT
This report describes an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol that
runs under the Unix 4.2 BSD operating system. Some issues related to local
network configurations are also discussed.
Status of this Memo:
This memo describes an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
(in that sense it is a status report). The memo also discusses some possible
extentions and some design issues (in that sense it is an invitation for
further discussion). Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Funding for this research was provided by DARPA and Telecom Australia.
RFC 911 i
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Motivation for Development 1
1.2 Overview of EGP 2
2. GATEWAY DESIGN 4
2.1 Routing Tables 4
2.1.1 Incoming Updates 5
2.1.2 Outgoing Updates 5
2.2 Neighbor Acquisition 6
2.3 Hello and Poll Intervals 6
2.4 Neighbor Cease 7
2.5 Neighbor Reachability 7
2.6 Sequence Numbers 8
2.7 Treatment of Excess Commands 8
2.8 Inappropriate Messages 8
2.9 Default Gateway 9
3. TESTING 10
4. FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS 11
4.1 Multiple Autonomous Systems 11
4.2 Interface Monitoring 11
4.3 Network Level Status Information 11
4.4 I...
