# BGP Labs: Advertise the Default Route

DevFeed: [BGP Labs: Advertise the Default Route](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bgp-labs-advertise-the-default-route-10956.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/03/bgp-labs-default-route/>)

Published: 2024-03-28T07:44:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Routing (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/routing.md>), [firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewalls.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>)

Tags: [advertising](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advertising.md>), [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [firewalls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewalls.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [route](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/route.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains why service providers and enterprise networks may advertise a default route through BGP instead of sending the entire Internet routing table. It points readers to a BGP lab exercise for practicing the configuration.

## Source excerpt

If you're an Internet Service Provider running BGP with your customers, you might not want to send them the whole Internet routing table. Sending the regional prefixes and the default route is usually good enough. Read more ...