Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)

The original Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) protocol used throughout the 1980’s and into the mid-1990’s was also somewhat confusingly named EGP. However, the EGP protocol had several problems, most notably an inability to scale up to support the growth in the size of the Internet. EGP has since become superseded by the BGP protocol.

RFC’s. More information on EGP can be found in the following references:

  • RFC 827, Rosen, E., Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), October 1982.
  • RFC 888, Seamonson, L; Rosen, E.; STUB Exterior Gateway Protocol, January 1984.
  • RFC 904, Mills, D., Exterior Gateway Protocol Formal Specification, April 1984.
  • RFC 1092, Rekhter, J.; EGP and Policy Based Routing in the New NSFNET Backbone, February 1989.
  • RFC 1093, Braun, H.W.; The NSFNET Routing Architecture, February 1989.