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RFC 888                     "STUB" EXTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL                            Linda J. Seamonson                               Eric C. Rosen                            BBN Communications                               January 1984This note describes the Exterior Gateway Protocol used to connect StubGateways to an Autonomous System of core Gateways.  This document specifiesthe working protocol, and defines an ARPA official protocol.  Allimplementers of Gateways should carefully review this document.

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984                             Table of Contents1   INTRODUCTION..........................................12   DEFINITIONS AND OVERVIEW..............................43   NEIGHBOR ACQUISITION..................................74   NEIGHBOR REACHABILITY PROTOCOL.......................105   NETWORK REACHABILITY (NR) MESSAGE....................156   POLLING FOR NR MESSAGES..............................227   SENDING NR MESSAGES..................................248   INDIRECT NEIGHBORS...................................269   LIMITATIONS..........................................27A   APPENDIX A - EGP MESSAGE FORMATS.....................28A.1   NEIGHBOR ACQUISITION MESSAGE.......................28A.2   NEIGHBOR HELLO/I HEARD YOU MESSAGE.................30A.3   NR POLL MESSAGE....................................32A.4   NETWORK REACHABILITY MESSAGE.......................34A.5   EGP ERROR MESSAGE..................................37                                   - i -RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     1  INTRODUCTION          The DARPA Catenet is expected to be a continuously expanding     system,  with  more  and  more  hosts  on  more and more networks     participating in it.  Of course, this will require more and  more     gateways.   In  the  past,  such  expansion  has taken place in a     relatively unstructured manner.  New gateways,  often  containing     radically different software than the existing gateways, would be     added and would immediately begin  participating  in  the  common     routing algorithm via the GGP protocol.  However, as the internet     grows larger and larger, this simple method of expansion  becomes     less and less feasible.  There are a number of reasons for this:          - the overhead of the routing algorithm becomes  excessively            large;          - the  proliferation   of   radically   different   gateways            participating  in  a single common routing algorithm makes            maintenance and fault isolation nearly  impossible,  since            it  becomes  impossible to regard       the internet as an            integrated communications system;          - the  gateway  software  and  algorithms,  especially   the            routing  algorithm, become too rigid and inflexible, since                                   - 1 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984            any proposed change  must be made in  too  many  different            places   and   by   too   many   different        people.          In the future, the internet is expected to evolve into a set     of  separate  sections or  "autonomous  systems",  each  of which     consists of a set of one or more relatively homogeneous gateways.     The  protocols,  and  in  particular  the routing algorithm which     these gateways use among themselves, will be  a  private  matter,     and  need never be implemented in gateways outside the particular     sections or system.          In the simplest case, an autonomous system might consist  of     just a single gateway connecting, for example, a local network to     the ARPANET.  Such a gateway might be called  a  "stub  gateway",     since  its  only purpose is to interface the local network to the     rest of the internet, and it is  not  intended  to  be  used  for     handling  any traffic which neither originated in nor is destined     for that particular local network.  In the near-term  future,  we     will  begin  to  think  of  the  internet  as a set of autonomous     systems, one of which consists of the DARPA gateways  on  ARPANET     and  SATNET,  and  the others of which are stub gateways to local     networks.   The former system, which we  shall  call  the  "core"                                   - 2 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     system,  will be used as a transport or "long-haul" system by the     latter systems.          Ultimately, the internet may consist of a number of co-equal     autonomous  systems,  any  of  which  may  be used as a transport     medium for traffic originating in any system and destined for any     system.  This more general case is still the subject of research.     This paper describes only how stub gateways connect to  the  core     system using the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP).                                   - 3 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     2  DEFINITIONS AND OVERVIEW          For the purposes of this paper, a "stub gateway" is  defined     as follows:          - it is not a core gateway          - it shares a network with at least one core gateway (has an            interface on the same network as some core gateway)          - it has interfaces to one or more networks  which  have  no            core gateways          - all other nets which are reachable from  the  core  system            via  the stub have no other path to the core system except            via the stub          The stub gateway is expected to fully execute  the  Internet     Control Message Protocol (ICMP), as well as the EGP protocol.  In     particular, it must respond to ICMP echo requests, and must  send     ICMP  destination  dead  messages  as  appropriate.   It  is also     required to send ICMP Redirect messages as appropriate.          Autonomous systems will be  assigned  16-bit  identification     numbers  (in  much  the same ways as network and protocol numbers     are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains a  field                                   - 4 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     for  this  number.   Zero  will not be assigned to any autonomous     system; the use  of  zero  as  an  autonomous  system  number  is     reserved for future use.          We call two gateways "neighbors" if there is  a  network  to     which  each  has  an interface.  If two neighbors are part of the     same autonomous system, we  call  them  INTERIOR  NEIGHBORS;  for     example,  any  two core gateways on the same network are interior     neighbors of each other.  If two neighbors are not  part  of  the     same  autonomous  system,  we  call  them EXTERIOR NEIGHBORS; for     example, a stub gateway and any core gateway that share a network     are exterior neighbors of each other.  In order for one system to     use another as a transport medium, gateways  which  are  exterior     neighbors  of  each other must be able to find out which networks     can be reached through the other.  The Exterior Gateway  Protocol     enables this information to be passed between exterior neighbors.     Since it is a polling protocol, it also enables each  gateway  to     control   the  rate  at  which  it  sends  and  receives  network     reachability information, allowing each system to control its own     overhead.   It  also  enables  each system to have an independent     routing algorithm whose operation cannot be disrupted by failures     of other systems.                                   - 5 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984          The Exterior Gateway Protocol has three parts: (a)  Neighbor     Acquisition Protocol, (b) Neighbor Reachability Protocol, and (c)     Network  Reachability  determination.   Note  that  all  messages     defined  by EGP are intended to travel only a single "hop".  That     is, they originate at one gateway and are sent to  a  neighboring     gateway   without  the  mediation  of  any  intervening  gateway.     Therefore, the time-to-live field should be set to a  very  small     value.   Gateways  which  encounter EGP messages in their message     streams which are not addressed to them may discard them.          Each EGP message contains a sequence  number.   The  gateway     should maintain one sequence number per neighbor.                                   - 6 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     3  NEIGHBOR ACQUISITION          Before it is possible to obtain routing information from  an     exterior  gateway,  it  is necessary to acquire that gateway as a     direct neighbor.  (The distinction between  direct  and  indirect     neighbors  will  be  made  in a later section.)  In order for two     gateways to become direct neighbors, they must be  neighbors,  in     the  sense  defined  above,  and  they  must execute the NEIGHBOR     ACQUISITION  PROTOCOL,  which  is  simply  a   standard   two-way     handshake.          A gateway that wishes to initiate neighbor acquisition  with     another  sends  it  a Neighbor Acquisition Request.  This message     should be repeatedly transmitted (at a reasonable  rate,  perhaps     once  every  30 seconds or so) until a Neighbor Acquisition Reply     or a Neighbor Acquisition Refusal is received.  The Request  will     contain  an  identification number which is copied into the reply     so that request and reply can be matched up.          A gateway receiving  a  Neighbor  Acquisition  Request  must     determine  whether  it  wishes to become a direct neighbor of the     source of the Request.  If not, it may, at  its  option,  respond     with   a   Neighbor   Acquisition   Refusal  message,  optionally     specifying the reason for refusal.  Otherwise, it should  send  a                                   - 7 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     Neighbor Acquisition Reply message.          The gateway  that  sent  the  Request  should  consider  the     Neighbor Acquisition complete when it has received the neighbor's     Reply.  The gateway that  sent  the  Reply  should  consider  the     acquisition complete when it has sent the Reply.          Unmatched Replies or Refusals should be  discarded  after  a     reasonable  period  of time.  However, information about any such     unmatched messages may be useful for diagnostic purposes.          A Neighbor Acquisition  Request  from  a  gateway  which  is     already a direct neighbor should be responded to with a Reply.          A Neighbor Acquisition Request or Reply from  gateway  G  to     gateway  G'  carries the minimum interval in seconds with which G     is willing to answer Neighbor Reachability Hello Messages from G'     and the minimum interval in seconds with which G is willing to be     polled for NR messages (see below).          If  a  gateway  wishes  to  cease  being  a  neighbor  of  a     particular  exterior  gateway, it sends a Neighbor Cease message.     A gateway  receiving  a  Neighbor  Cease  message  should  always     respond with a Neighbor Cease Acknowledgment.  It should cease to     treat the sender of the message as a neighbor in any way.   Since                                   - 8 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     there  is  a  significant  amount  of protocol run between direct     neighbors (see below), if some gateway no longer needs  to  be  a     direct  neighbor  of  some other, it is "polite" to indicate this     fact with a Neighbor Cease Message.  The Neighbor  Cease  Message     should  be  retransmitted  (up  to some number of times) until an     acknowledgment for it is received.          Once  a  Neighbor  Cease  message  has  been  received,  the     Neighbor   Reachability  Protocol  (below)  should  cease  to  be     executed.          A stub should have tables configured in with  the  addresses     of  a  small  number  of  the  core gateways (no more than two or     three) with which it has  a  common  network.   It  will  be  the     responsibility  of the stub to initiate neighbor acquisition with     these gateways.  If the direct neighbors of  a  stub  should  all     fail,  it  will  be  the responsibility of the stub to acquire at     least one new direct neighbor.  It can do so by choosing  one  of     the  core  gateways which it has had as an indirect neighbor (see     below), and executing the neighbor acquisition protocol with  it.     (It  is  possible  that  no  more than one core gateway will ever     agree to become a direct neighbor with any given stub gateway  at     any one time.)                                   - 9 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     4  NEIGHBOR REACHABILITY PROTOCOL          It is important for a gateway to keep real-time  information     as  to the reachability of its neighbors.  If a gateway concludes     that a particular neighbor cannot be  reached,  it  should  cease     forwarding  traffic to that gateway.  To make that determination,     a NEIGHBOR REACHABILITY protocol is  needed.   The  EGP  protocol     provides two messages types for this purpose -- a "Hello" message     and an "I Heard You" message.          When a "Hello" message is received from a  direct  neighbor,     an "I Heard You" must be returned to that neighbor "immediately".     The delay between receiving a "Hello" and returning an  "I  Heard     You" should never be more than a few seconds.          Core  gateways  will  use  the   following   algorithm   for     determining reachablility of an exterior neighbor:          A reachable  neighbor  shall  be  declared  unreachable  if,     during  the  time  in  which  the  core  gateway  sent its last n     "Hello"s, it received fewer than k "I Heard You"s in return.   An     unreachable  neighbor  shall be declared reachable if, during the     time in which the core gateway  sent  its  last  m  "Hello"s,  it     received at least j "I Heard You"s in return.                                  - 10 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984          Stub  gateways  may  also  send  "Hello"s  to  their  direct     neighbors  and  receive  "I Heard You"s in return.  The algorithm     for determining reachability may  be  similar  to  the  algorithm     described  above.  However, it is not necessary for stubs to send     "Hello"s.  The "Hello" and "I Heard You" messages have  a  status     field  which  the  sending  gateway  uses  to indicate whether it     thinks  the  receiving  gateway  is  reachable  or   not.    This     information  can  be  useful  for  diagnostic  purposes.  It also     allows a stub gateway  to  make  its  reachability  determination     parasitic  on  its  core neighbor: only the core gateway actually     needs to send "Hello" messages, and the stub can declare it up or     down based on the status field in the "Hello".  That is, the stub     gateway (which sends only  "I  Heard  You"s)  declares  the  core     gateway  (which  sends  only  "Hello"s)  to be reachable when the     "Hello"s from the core indicate that it has declared the stub  to     be reachable.          The frequency with which the  "Hello"s  are  sent,  and  the     values of the parameters k, n, j, and m cannot be specified here.     For best results, this will depend on the characteristics of  the     neighbor  and  of the network which the neighbors have in common.     THIS IMPLIES THAT THE PROPER PARAMETERS MAY NEED TO BE DETERMINED     JOINTLY  BY THE DESIGNERS AND IMPLEMENTERS OF THE TWO NEIGHBORING                                  - 11 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     GATEWAYS;  choosing  algorithms  and  parameters  in   isolation,     without  considering  the characteristics of the neighbor and the     connecting network, would not be expected to  result  in  optimum     reachability determinations.          However, the Neighbor Acquisition Request and Reply messages     provide  neighbors with a way to inform each other of the minimum     frequency at which they  are  willing  to  answer  Hellos.   When     gateway  G sends a Neighbor Acquisition Request to gateway G', it     states that it does not  wish  to  answer  Hellos  from  G'  more     frequently  than  once  every  X  seconds.   G'  in  its Neighbor     Acquisition Reply states that it does not wish to  answer  Hellos     from  G  more  frequently  than  once  every  Y seconds.  The two     frequencies do not have to be the same, but  each  neighbor  must     conform  to  the  interval requested by the other.  A gateway may     send Hellos less frequently than requested, but not more.          A  direct  neighbor  gateway   should   also   be   declared     unreachable  if  the  network  connecting it supplies lower level     protocol information from which this can be deduced.   Thus,  for     example,  if  a gateway receives an 1822 Destination Dead message     from the ARPANET which indicates that a direct neighbor is  dead,     it should declare that neighbor unreachable.  The neighbor should                                  - 12 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     not be declared reachable again until  the  requisite  number  of     Hello/I-Heard-You packets have been exchanged.          A direct neighbor which  has  become  unreachable  does  not     thereby  cease  to  be  a  direct  neighbor.  The neighbor can be     declared reachable again without  any  need  to  go  through  the     neighbor  acquisition  protocol  again.  However, if the neighbor     remains unreachable for an extremely long period of time, such as     an  hour,  the  gateway  should  cease to treat it as a neighbor,     i.e., should cease sending Hello messages to  it.   The  neighbor     acquisition  protocol  would  then  need to be repeated before it     could become a direct neighbor again.          "Hello" messages from sources other  than  direct  neighbors     should  simply  be ignored.  However, logging the presence of any     such messages might provide useful diagnostic information.          A gateway which is going down, or  whose  interface  to  the     network which connects it to a particular neighbor is going down,     should send a Neighbor Cease  message  to  all  direct  neighbors     which  will  no  longer  be  able to reach it.  The Cease message     should use the info field to specify the reason as "going  down".     It  should  retransmit  that message (up to some number of times)     until it receives a Neighbor Cease Acknowledgment.  This provides                                  - 13 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     the  neighbors  with an advance warning of an outage, and enables     them to prepare for it in a way which will minimize disruption to     existing traffic.                                  - 14 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     5  NETWORK REACHABILITY (NR) MESSAGE          Terminology: Let gateway G have an interface to  network  N.     We  say  that G is AN APPROPRIATE FIRST HOP to network M relative     to network N (where M and N are distinct networks) if and only if     the following condition holds:          Traffic which is destined for network M, and  which  arrives          at gateway G over its network N interface, will be forwarded          to M by G over a path  which  does  not  include  any  other          gateway with an interface to network N.          In short, G is  an  appropriate  first  hop  for  network  M     relative  to network N just in case there is no better gateway on     network N through which to route traffic which  is  destined  for     network  M.   For  optimal routing, traffic in network N which is     destined for network M ought always to be forwarded to a  gateway     which is an appropriate first hop.          In  order  for  exterior  neighbors  G  and  G'  (which  are     neighbors  over network N) to be able to use each other as packet     switches for forwarding traffic to remote networks, each needs to     know  the  list of networks for which the other is an appropriate     first hop.  The Exterior  Gateway  Protocol  defines  a  message,                                  - 15 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     called  the  Network  Reachability  Message  (or NR message), for     transferring this information.          Let G be a gateway on network N.  Then the NR message  which     G sends about network N must contain the following information:          A list of all the networks for which  G  is  an  appropriate          first hop relative to network N.     If G' can obtain this information from exterior neighbor G,  then     it  knows  that no traffic destined for networks which are NOT in     that list should be forwarded to G.  (It cannot simply  conclude,     however,  that all traffic for any networks in that list ought to     be forwarded via G, since G' may also have other neighbors  which     are also appropriate first hops to network N.  For example, G and     G'' might each be neighbors of G',  but  might  be  "equidistant"     from  some  network  M.   Then each could be an appropriate first     hop.)          For each network in the list, the NR message also  specifies     the "distance" (according to some metric whose definition is left     to the designers of the autonomous system of which gateway G is a     member)  from  G  to  that  network.   Core  gateways will report     distances less than 128 for networks that can be reached  without                                  - 16 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     leaving  the  core  system,  and  greater  than  or  equal to 128     otherwise.  A stub gateway should report distances less than  128     for all networks listed in its NR messages.          The maximum value of distance (255.) shall be taken to  mean     that  the network is UNREACHABLE.  ALL OTHER VALUES WILL BE TAKEN     TO MEAN THAT THE NETWORK IS REACHABLE.          If an NR message from some gateway G fails to  mention  some     network  N which was mentioned in the previous NR message from G,     it is possible that N has become unreachable from G.  If  several     successive  NR  messages  from  G omit mention of N, it should be     taken to mean that  N  is  no  longer  reachable  from  G.   This     procedure  is  necessary  to  ensure  that  networks which can no     longer be  reached,  but  which  are  never  explicitly  declared     unreachable, are timed out and removed from the list of reachable     networks.          It will often be the case that where a core gateway G and  a     stub  gateway  G'  are  direct neighbors on network N, G knows of     many more gateway neighbors on network N,  and  knows  for  which     networks  those  gateway neighbors are the appropriate first hop.     Since the stub G' may not know about all these  other  neighbors,     it  is  convenient  and often more efficient for it to be able to                                  - 17 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     obtain this information from G.  Therefore, the  EGP  NR  message     also  contains  fields  which allow the core gateway G to specify     the following information:          a) A list of all neighbors (both interior and exterior) of G             (on  network  N)  which  G  has reliably determined to be             reachable.  G may also include indirect neighbors in this             list (see below.)          b) For each of those neighbors, the  list  of  networks  for             which that neighbor is an appropriate first hop (relative             to network N).          c) For each such <neighbor, network>  pair,  the  "distance"             from that neighbor to that network.          Thus the NR message provides a means of allowing  a  gateway     to  "discover" new neighbors by seeing whether a neighbor that it     already knows  of  has  any  additional  neighbors  on  the  same     network.  This information also makes possible the implementation     of the INDIRECT NEIGHBOR strategy defined below.          A  more  precise  description  of  the  NR  message  is  the     following.                                  - 18 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984          The data portion of the  message  will  consist  largely  of     blocks  of data.  Each block will be headed by a gateway address,     which will be the address  either  of  the  gateway  sending  the     message  or  of  one  of  that gateway's neighbors.  Each gateway     address will be followed by a list of the networks for which that     gateway  is  an  appropriate first hop.  All networks at the same     distance from the gateway will be grouped together in this  list,     preceded  by  the  distance  itself and the number of networks at     that distance.  The whole list is preceded  by  a  count  of  the     distance-groups in the list.          Preceding the list of data blocks is:          a) The count (one byte) of the number of interior  neighbors             of  G  for  which  this message contains data blocks.  By             convention, this count will include the data block for  G             itself, which should be the first one to appear.          b) The count (one byte) of the number of exterior  neighbors                of  G  for  which  this  message contains data blocks.          c) The address of the network which this message  is  about.             If  G  and  G' are neighbors on network N, then in the NR             message going from G  to  G',  this  is  the  address  of                                  - 19 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984             network   N.   For  convenience,  four  bytes  have  been             allocated for this address -- the trailing one,  two,  or             three bytes should be zero.          Then follow the data blocks themselves, first the block  for     G itself, then the blocks for all the interior neighbors of G (if     any), then the blocks for  the  exterior  neighbors.   Since  all     gateways  mentioned  are  on  the same network, whose address has     already been given, the gateway  addresses  are  given  with  the     network  address part (one, two, or three bytes) omitted, to save     space.          In the list of networks, each network address is either one,     two,  or three bytes, depending on whether it is a class A, class     B, or class C network.  No trailing bytes are used.          The NR message  sent  by  a  stub  should  be  the  simplest     allowable.   That  is,  it  should have only a single data block,     headed by its own address (on the network it has in  common  with     the neighboring core gateway), listing just the networks to which     it is an appropriate first hop.  These will be just the  networks     that can be reached no other way, in general.                                  - 20 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984          The core gateways will send complete NR messages, containing     information  about all other gateways on the common network, both     core gateways (which shall be listed as interior  neighbors)  and     other  gateways (which shall be listed as exterior neighbors, and     may include the stub itself).  This information will  enable  the     stub  to  become  an  indirect  neighbor (see below) of all these     other gateways.  That is, the stub shall forward traffic directly     to  these  other  gateways  as  appropriate, but shall not become     direct neighbors with them.          The  stub  should  NEVER  forward  to   any   (directly   or     indirectly)  neighboring  core gateway any traffic for which that     gateway is not an appropriate first hop, as indicated  in  an  NR     message.   Of  course, this does not apply to datagrams which are     using the source route option; any such datagrams  should  always     be  forwarded as indicated in the source route option field, even     if that  requires  forwarding  to  a  gateway  which  is  not  an     appropriate first hop.                                  - 21 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     6  POLLING FOR NR MESSAGES          No gateway is required to send  NR  messages  to  any  other     gateway,  except  as  a  response  to  an  NR  Poll from a direct     neighbor.  However, a gateway is required to  respond  to  an  NR     Poll  from  a  direct neighbor within several seconds (subject to     the qualification two paragraphs  hence),  even  if  the  gateway     believes that neighbor to be down.          The EGP NR Poll message is defined  for  this  purpose.   No     gateway  may  poll another for an NR message more often than once     per minute.  A gateway receiving more than one  poll  per  minute     may  simply  ignore  the  excess  polls,  or  may return an error     message.          The minimum interval which gateway  G  will  accept  as  the     polling  interval  from gateway G' and the minimum interval which     G' will accept as the polling interval from G  are  specified  at     the  time  that  G  and  G'  become  direct  neighbors.  Both the     Neighbor Acquisition Request and the Neighbor  Acquisition  Reply     allow  the  sender  to  specify,  in seconds, its desired minimum     polling interval.  If G specifies to G' that its minimum  polling     interval  is  X,  G'  should not poll G more frequently than once     every X seconds.  G will not guarantee to  answer  more  frequent                                  - 22 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     polls.          Polls must only  be  sent  to  direct  neighbors  which  are     declared reachable by the neighbor reachability protocol.          An NR Poll message contains a sequence number chosen by  the     polling  gateway.   The polled gateway will return this number in     the NR message it sends in response to the poll,  to  enable  the     polling gateway to match up received NR messages with polls.          In general, a poll should be retransmitted  some  number  of     times  (with a reasonable interval between retransmissions) until     an NR message is received.  IF NO NR MESSAGE  IS  RECEIVED  AFTER     THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RETRANSMISSIONS, THE POLLING GATEWAY SHOULD     ASSUME THAT THE POLLED GATEWAY IS NOT AN  APPROPRIATE  FIRST  HOP     FOR  ANY  NETWORK  WHATSOEVER.   The  optimum  parameters for the     polling/retransmission  algorithm  will  be  dependent   on   the     characteristics   of   the  two  neighbors  and  of  the  network     connecting them.          Received NR messages whose  identification  numbers  do  not     match  the  identification  number of the most recently sent poll     shall be ignored.  There is no provision for multiple outstanding     polls to the same neighbor.                                  - 23 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     7  SENDING NR MESSAGES          In general, NR messages are to be sent only in response to a     poll.   However,  between  two  successive polls from an exterior     neighbor, a gateway may send one  and  only  one  unsolicited  NR     message  to  that  neighbor.   This  gives  it limited ability to     quickly announce  network  reachability  changes  that  may  have     occurred in the interval since the last poll.  Excess unsolicited     NR messages may be ignored, or an error message may be returned.          An NR message should be sent within  several  seconds  after     receipt  of  a poll.  Failure to respond in a timely manner to an     NR poll may result in the polling  gateway's  deciding  that  the     polled gateway is not an appropriate first hop to any network.          NR messages sent in response to  polls  carry  the  sequence     number  of  the  poll  message in their "sequence number" fields.     Unsolicited NR messages carry the identification  number  of  the     last  poll  received,  and have the "unsolicited" bit set.  (Note     that this allows for only a single  unsolicited  NR  message  per     polling period.)          Polls from  non-neighbors,  from  neighbors  which  are  not     declared  reachable, or with bad IP source network fields, should                                  - 24 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     be responded to with an EGP error message  with  the  appropriate     "reason"  field.   If  G  sends  an  NR poll to G' with IP source     network N, and G' is not a neighbor of  G  on  its  interface  to     network  N  (or G' does not have an interface to network N), then     the source network field is considered "bad".          A gateway is normally not required to send more than one  NR     message  within the minimum interval specified at the time of the     neighbor acquisition.  An exception to  this  must  be  made  for     duplicate polls (successive polls with the same sequence number),     which occur when an NR message is lost  in  transit.   A  gateway     should  send an NR message containing its most recent information     in response to a duplicate poll.                                  - 25 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     8  INDIRECT NEIGHBORS          Becoming a "direct neighbor" of an exterior gateway requires     three  steps:  (a)  neighbor  acquisition, (b) running a neighbor     reachability protocol, and (c) polling the neighbor  periodically     for NR messages.  Suppose, however, that gateway G receives an NR     message from G', in which G'  indicates  the  presence  of  other     neighbors  G1, ..., Gn, each of which is an appropriate first hop     for some set of networks to which G' itself is not an appropriate     first hop.  Then G should be allowed to forward traffic for those     networks directly to the appropriate one of G1, ..., Gn,  without     having to send it to G' first.  In this case, G may be considered     an INDIRECT NEIGHBOR of G1, ..., Gn, since it is  a  neighbor  of     these  other  gateways for the purpose of forwarding traffic, but     does not perform neighbor acquisition, neighbor reachability,  or     exchange   of  NR  messages  with  them.   Neighbor  and  network     reachability information is obtained indirectly via G', hence the     designation  "indirect  neighbor".   We say that G is an indirect     neighbor of G1, ..., Gn VIA G'.          If G is an indirect neighbor of  G'  via  G'',  and  then  G     receives  an  NR  message  from  G'' which does not mention G', G     should treat G' as having become unreachable.                                  - 26 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     9  LIMITATIONS          It must be clearly  understood  that  the  Exterior  Gateway     Protocol   does  not  in  itself  constitute  a  network  routing     algorithm.  In addition, it does not provide all the  information     needed  to  implement  a  general area routing algorithm.  If the     topology does not obey the  rules  given  for  stubs  above,  the     Exterior  Gateway  Protocol  does  not provide enough topological     information to prevent loops.          If any gateway sends an NR message with  false  information,     claiming  to be an appropriate first hop to a network which it in     fact cannot even reach, traffic  destined  to  that  network  may     never be delivered.  Implementers must bear this in mind.                                  - 27 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     A  APPENDIX A - EGP MESSAGE FORMATS          The Exterior Gateway Protocol runs under Internet Protocol as     protocol number 8 (decimal).     A.1  NEIGHBOR ACQUISITION MESSAGE      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! EGP Version # !     Type      !     Code      !    Info       !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !        Checksum               !       Autonomous System #     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !        Sequence #             !       NR Hello interval       !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !        NR poll interval       !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     Description:          The Neighbor Acquisition messages are used by interior and          exterior gateways to become neighbors of each other.     EGP Version #         2     Type         3     Code          Code = 0      Neighbor Acquisition Request          Code = 1      Neighbor Acquisition Reply          Code = 2      Neighbor Acquisition Refusal (see Info field)          Code = 3      Neighbor Cease Message (see Info field)          Code = 4      Neighbor Cease Acknowledgment     Checksum                                  - 28 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984         The  EGP checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's         complement sum of the  EGP  message  starting  with  the  EGP         version  number  field.   For  computing  the  checksum,  the         checksum field should be zero.     Autonomous System #         This   16-bit   number   identifies   the  autonomous  system         containing the gateway which is the source of this message.     Info         For Refusal message, gives reason for refusal:             0  Unspecified             1  Out of table space             2  Administrative prohibition         For Cease message, gives reason for ceasing to be neighbor:             0 Unspecified             1 Going down             2 No longer needed         Otherwise, this field MUST be zero.     Sequence Number         A sequence number to aid in matching requests and         replies.     NR Hello Interval         Minimum Hello polling interval(seconds).     NR Poll Interval         Minumum NR polling interval(seconds).                                  - 29 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     A.2  NEIGHBOR HELLO/I HEARD YOU MESSAGE      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! EGP Version # !    Type       !     Code      !    Status     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !    Checksum                   !    Autonomous System #        !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !      Sequence #               !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     Description:         Exterior  neighbors  use  EGP  Neighbor Hello and I Heard You         Messages to determine neighbor connectivity.  When a  gateway         receives  an  EGP  Neighbor  Hello message from a neighbor it         should respond with an EGP I Heard You message.     EGP Version #         2     Type         5     Code          Code = 0 for Hello          Code = 1 for I Heard you     Checksum         The  EGP checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's         complement sum of the  EGP  message  starting  with  the  EGP         version  number  field.   For  computing  the  checksum,  the         checksum field should be zero.     Autonomous System #         This   16-bit   number   identifies   the  autonomous  system         containing the gateway which is the source of this message.                                  - 30 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     Sequence Number         A sequence number to aid in matching requests and replies.     Status             0  No status given             1  You appear reachable to me             2  You appear unreachable to me due to neighbor                reachability protocol             3  You appear unreachable to me due to network                reachability information (such as 1822 "destination                dead" messages from ARPANET)             4  You appear unreachable to me due to problems                with my network interface                                  - 31 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     A.3  NR POLL MESSAGE      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! EGP Version # !    Type       !     Code      !    Unused     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !         Checksum              !       Autonomous System #     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !         Sequence #            !       Unused                  !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !             IP Source Network                                 !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     Description:          A  gateway  that  wants  to  receive  an  NR message from an          Exterior Gateway will send an NR Poll message.  Each gateway          mentioned in the NR message will have an  interface  on  the          network that is in the IP source network field.     EGP Version #         2     Type         2     Code         0     Checksum          The EGP checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's          complement  sum  of  the  EGP  message starting with the EGP          version number  field.   For  computing  the  checksum,  the          checksum field should be zero.     Autonomous System #         This   16-bit   number   identifies   the  autonomous  system                                  - 32 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984         containing the gateway which is the source of this message.     Sequence Number          A sequence  number  to  aid in matching requests and          replies.     IP Source Network          Each  gateway  mentioned  in  the  NR  message  will have an          interface on the network that is in the  IP  source  network          field.   The  IP  source  network  is  coded  as one byte of          network number followed by two bytes of  zero  for  class  A          networks,  two  bytes of network number followed by one byte          of zero for class B networks, and  three  bytes  of  network          number for class C networks.                                  - 33 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     A.4  NETWORK REACHABILITY MESSAGE      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! EGP Version # !     Type      !   Code        !U! Zeroes      !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !    Checksum                   !       Autonomous System #     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !    Sequence #                 ! # of Int Gwys ! # of Ext Gwys !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !                      IP Source Network                        !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! Gateway 1 IP address (without network #)      ! ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  # Distances  !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  Distance 1   !   # Nets      !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net 1,1,1   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net 1,1,2   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+            ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  Distance 2   !   # Nets      !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net 1,2,1   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net 1,2,2   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+            ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !             Gateway  n IP address (without network #)         !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  # Distances  !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  Distance 1   !  # Nets       !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net n,1,1   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net n,1,2   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !  Distance 2   !  # Nets       !                                  - 34 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net n,2,1   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !   net n,2,2   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ; 1, 2 or 3 bytes     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+           ...     Description:          The  Network  Reachability  message (NR) is used to discover     which networks may be reached through Exterior Gateways.  The  NR     message is sent in response to an NR Poll message.     EGP Version #         2     Type         1     Code         0     Checksum         The  EGP checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's         complement sum of the  EGP  message  starting  with  the  EGP         version  number  field.   For  computing  the  checksum,  the         checksum field should be zero.     Autonomous System #         This   16-bit   number   identifies   the  autonomous  system         containing the gateway which is the source of this message.     U (Unsolicited) bit         This bit is set if the NR message is being sent unsolicited.                                  - 35 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     Sequence Number         The  sequence  number  of  the  last  NR  poll  message         received from the neighbor to whom this NR message  is  being         sent.   This  number  is  used  to  aid in matching polls and         replies.     IP Source Network          Each  gateway  mentioned  in  the  NR  message  will have an          interface on the network that is in the  IP  source  network          field.     # of Interior Gateways          The  number  of interior gateways that are mentioned in this          message.     # of Exterior Gateways          The  number  of exterior gateways that are mentioned in this          message.     Gateway IP address          1, 2 or 3 bytes of Gateway IP address (without network #).     # of Distances          The number of distances in the gateway block.     Distance          The distance.     # of Nets          The number of nets at this distance.     Network address          1, 2,  or 3 bytes of network address of network which can be          reached via the preceding gateway.                                  - 36 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984     A.5  EGP ERROR MESSAGE      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     ! EGP Version # !    Type       !     Code      !    Unused     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !    Checksum                   !       Autonomous System #     !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !       Sequence #              !          Reason               !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     !                                                               !     !                     Error Message Header                      !     !            (first three 32-bit words of EGP header)           !     !                                                               !     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     Description:         An  EGP  Error  Message is sent in response to an EGP Message         that has a bad checksum or has an incorrect value in  one  of         its fields.     EGP Version #         2     Type         8     Code         0     Checksum          The EGP checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's          complement  sum  of  the  EGP  message starting with the EGP          version number  field.   For  computing  the  checksum,  the          checksum field should be zero.     Autonomous System #                                  - 37 -

RFC 888                                              JANUARY 1984         This   16-bit   number   identifies   the  autonomous  system         containing the gateway which is the source of this message.     Sequence Number          A  sequence number assigned by the gateway sending the error          message.     Reason          The reason that the EGP message was in error.  The following          reasons are defined:          0  -  unspecified          1  -  Bad EGP checksum          2  -  Bad IP Source address in NR Poll or Response          3  -  Undefined EGP Type or Code          4  -  Received poll from non-neighbor          5  -  Received excess unsolicted NR message          6  -  Received excess poll          7  -  Erroneous counts in received NR message          8  -  No response received to NR poll                                  - 38 -

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