[ih] Exterior Gateway Protocol

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Tue Sep 1 20:49:13 PDT 2020


> Does anyone know of any surviving implementations of Exterior Gateway
> Protocol, BGP's predecessor.

(I don't know about it, but ...)

See net1 tarball at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/

egp/ directory has code and notes for 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD including:

/* "egpup" is a user process that implements the Exterior Gateway Protocol 
 * under Unix 4.2 BSD according to the spec. in RFC 888 and 904.
...

(Be sure to see egp-notes for history, examples and more.)



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