Exterior Gateway Protocol [EGP]

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A protocol which distributes routing information to the routers which connect autonomous systems.

Exterior Gateway Protocol (Wikipedia)
This article is about the specific protocol used on the early Internet. For routing protocols used to interconnect network systems, see Exterior gateway protocol.

The Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) was a routing protocol used to connect different autonomous systems on the Internet from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, when it was replaced by Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

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