Complete Protocol dictionary, glossary and reference

EGP: Exterior Gateway Protocol

Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) is for exchanging routing information between two neighbor gateway hosts in a network of autonomous systems. EGP is commonly used between hosts on the Internet to exchange routing table information. The protocol is based on periodic polling using Hello/I-Heard-You (I-H-U) message exchanges to monitor neighbor reachability and Poll commands to solicit Update responses.

Standard Organization

IETF

Related Document

RFC 904