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Exterior Routing
Exterior routing occurs between
autonomous systems,
and is of concern to service providers and other large or complex networks.
The basic routable element is the Autonomous System,
a collection of
CIDR prefixes identified by an
Autonomous System number. While there may be many different
interior routing scheme, a single exterior routing system manages
the global Internet, based primarily on the
BGP-4 exterior routing protocol.
