BGP —Border Gateway Protocol. An interdomain routing protocol that replaces External Gateway Protocol (EGP). BGP systems exchange
reachability information with other BGP systems. BGP is defined by RFC 1163.
EGP —External Gateway Protocol. An internet protocol for exchanging routing information between autonomous systems. EGP is documented
in RFC 904. Not to be confused with the general term exterior gateway protocol. EGP is an obsolete protocol that was replaced
by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
EIGRP —Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. Advanced version of Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) developed by Cisco.
Provides superior convergence properties and operating efficiency, and combines the advantages of link state protocols with
those of distance vector protocols.
IGP —Interior Gateway Protocol. An internet protocol used to exchange routing information within an autonomous system. Examples
of common Internet IGPs include Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Routing Information
Protocol (RIP).
IGRP —Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) developed by Cisco to address the issues associated
with routing in large, heterogeneous networks.
MPLS —Multiprotocol Label Switching. A switching method that forwards IP traffic through the use of a label. This label instructs
the devices and the switches in the network where to forward each packet based on preestablished IP routing information.
OSPF —Open Shortest Path First. A link-state, hierarchical, Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing algorithm and routing protocol
proposed as a successor to Routing Information Protocol (RIP) in the Internet community. OSPF features include least-cost
routing, multipath routing, and load balancing. OSPF was derived from an early version of the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate
System (IS-IS) protocol.
RIP —Routing Information Protocol. Internal Gateway Protocol (IGP) supplied with UNIX Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) systems.
RIP is the most common IGP in the Internet. It uses hop count as a routing metric.
VPN —Virtual Private Network. The result of a device configuration that enables IP traffic to use tunneling to travel securely
over a public TCP/IP network.