| ▲ | hk1337 2 days ago | |
I probably glossed over it in all the posts but… What is a BGP? | ||
| ▲ | literalAardvark 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's the protocol used by carriers to route traffic globally. (Make automated decisions about which core router should receive the traffic coming out of your AS ("network", kinda) ) It's entirely detached from anything else so you're pretty unlikely to have heard of it. In that way it's similar to SS7. | ||
| ▲ | patmorgan23 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The Internet is a network of Networks, BGP (Boarder Gateway Protocol) is how routers tell other routers what networks they are connected to. This allows you to connect to any device on the Internet, even if you have to go through 5 different networks to get there. | ||