What is BGP and why to use it?
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The Border Gateway Protocol makes routing decisions based on paths, network policies, or rule-sets configured by a network administrator and is involved in making core routing decisions. BGP may be used for routing within an autonomous system. In this application it is referred to as Interior Border Gateway Protocol, Internal BGP, or iBGP. In contrast, the Internet application of the protocol may be referred to as Exterior Border Gateway Protocol, External BGP, or eBGP.
In the network below there are a total of five routers and one end-user computer. In real world deployments a network could have dozens or hundreds of routers or devices depending on the scale of the network. Regardless of the network complexity dynamic routing serves the same role in that its purpose is to share routes with other routers so devices know how to transverse networks and remote devices can return traffic back to the requester. Hence, the creation of dynamic routing.
Verify the configuration
Now that the configuration is finished lets verify our neighbors and routes. Using the show ip bgp summary and show ip route commands you can verify the remote routers to which your router has formed and adjacency and verify the expected routes are being advertised. Use the ping command to verify connectivity.
