| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Exterior Gateway Protocol | The Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) is a routing protocol for the Internet originally specified in 1982 by Eric C. Rosen of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. It was first described in [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc827.html RFC 827] and formally specified in [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc904.html RFC 904] (1984). EGP is a type of path vector protocol. (references) | ||
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| Exterior Gateway Protocol | Computing | Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) A protocol which distributes routing information to the routers which connect autonomous systems. The term "gateway" is historical, and "router" is currently the preferred term. There is also a routing protocol called EGP defined in STD 18, RFC 904. See also Border Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Exterior gateway protocol | Post & Telecom | The protocol used by a gateway in one autonomous system to advertise the IP addresses of networks in that system to a gateway in another autonomous system. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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