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Interior Gateway Protocol

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Interior Gateway Protocol - (IGP) An Internet protocol which distributes routing information to the routers within an autonomous system. The term "gateway" is historical, "router" is currently the preferred term.

See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Routing Information Protocol.


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Our customers--ships, submarines, mobile commands--would connect and disconnect at will, with an interior gateway protocol such as OSPF assuming that everyone is just one big happy family," recalls Stanford Wong, also a PRNOC.
Routing within an AS is handled by an Interior Gateway Protocol (an IGP such as OSPF or IS-IS, or in many cases, especially backbones, Interior BGP, or IBGP), but this routing information is not visible outside the AS.
Long recognized as the fastest, most reliable way to disseminate information from one source to many destinations, flooding has been used successfully for years by interior gateway protocols -- e.
 
 
 
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