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Conventions in This Chapter

Certain terms used with BGP, such as the names of attributes and messages, are typically expressed in all uppercase letters in the RFCs. For improved readability, those terms are represented in lowercase in this chapter. Table 4 lists the terms and their variant spellings.

Table 4: Conventions for BGP Terms

In This Chapter

In RFCs

aggregator

AGGREGATOR

AS-confed-set

AS_CONFED_SET

AS-path or AS path

AS_PATH

AS-sequence

AS_SEQUENCE

AS-set

AS_SET

atomic-aggregate

ATOMIC_AGGREGATE

cluster-list

CLUSTER_LIST

keepalive

KEEPALIVE

local-pref

LOCAL_PREF

multiexit discriminator or MED

MULTI_EXIT_DISC

new-as-path

NEW_AS_PATH

new-aggregator

NEW_AGGREGATOR

next-hop or next hop

NEXT_HOP

no-advertise

NO_ADVERTISE

no-export

NO_EXPORT

no-export-subconfed

NO_EXPORT_SUBCONFED

notification

NOTIFICATION

open

OPEN

origin

ORIGIN

originator-ID

ORIGINATOR_ID

route-refresh

ROUTE-REFRESH

update

UPDATE


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