Talk:Border Gateway Protocol

message: I removed the text
    It uses 20 bytes per header.
because it was in a strange place and it wasn't at all clear what it was talking about.  Someone with the knowledge should explain this and put it where it belongs.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnebulon (talk • contribs) 16:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  It uses 20 bytes per header 

message: I Removed these lines from the beginning of the article:
In the Cisco operating system, IBGP routes have an administrative distance of 200 and that of EBGP is 20;  IBGP is thus less preferred than either external BGP or any interior routing protocol. Other router implementations also prefer EBGP to IGPs, and IGPs to IBGP.
I felt like they were much too specific for the introductory paragraph, and didn't fit with the general description of iBGP/eBGP that surrounded them. I tried to find another place for them to go (maybe "Per-neighbor decisions"?) but couldn't decide on where/whether they should go back in. Feedback welcome.
--Phinze (talk) 09:05, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cisco-specific lines 

message: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/11/23/2230223/route-injection-attacks-detouring-internet-traffic  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.116.225 (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exploits 

message: I proposed merging BGP confederation into this article.  removed the merge banner from BGP confederation with the edit comment reproduced below. I have restored the merge banner in hopes of having a wider discussion about this proposal. ~KvnG 19:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The BGP article does not clearly define this term, which is linked from other articles - rv merge tag
For symmetry, this merge would also need to involve Route reflector. Instead of merging, I've decided to improve BGP confederation. Once this article is improved a bit, it may be easier to see how or whether to do these merges. ~KvnG 15:41, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[BGP confederation]] merge proposal 

message: MP-BGP redirects here (to BGP). Should redirect to Multiprotocol_BGP.
Kjrrp (talk) 15:05, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  MP-BGP redirection 

message: Based on discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/512k day, I merged 512k day here, into the Routing table growth section. It might be too much content for the section, so feel free to trim as you see fit. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged in 512k day 

message: The text is incorrect in some places, and contradictory in others. Example:
*Idle State:
** Refuse all incoming BGP connections
...
** Listens for a TCP connection from its peer.
The RFChttps://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4271.txt is a bit chunky, so it looks like whoever wrote this has combined the initial Idle State data with what to do after receiving a Manual/Automatic Start message.
I appreciate the irony of submitting criticism without proposing an alternative :) I do however think it's important to have a section about this here in the talk page, as this part could ultimately be better written.
Samrussellnz (talk) 23:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  State machine transitions 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I removed the distance-vector reference because a path vector is not the same thing.  A citation is needed for referring to BGP as a distance-vector routing protocol, otherwise the text as presented is confusing to people who don't know the difference, and nonsensical to people who do.
Replace:
:The protocol is classified as a path vector protocol but is sometimes also classed as a distance-vector routing protocol.
with
:The protocol is classified as a path vector protocol.
Websurfer2 (talk) 09:02, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  path vector vs. distance vector citation needed