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To expand a little more: BGP is a protocol for exchanging information about routes between routers, not a protocol for shipping non-routing data (e.g. your HTTP
by runlevel1 5y ago
To expand a little more: BGP is a protocol for exchanging information about routes between routers, not a protocol for shipping non-routing data (e.g. your HTTP request is never carried by BGP).
- dnautics 5y agoAs a shitty analogy, I would say it's role is analogous to DHCP, except it's decentralized and for WANs instead of LANs.