The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols which employs the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents...

characteristics of routing protocols include the manner in which they avoid routing loops, the manner in which they select preferred routes, using information about...

distance-vector routing protocol in data networks determines the best route for data packets based on distance. Distance-vector routing protocols measure the...

Routing tables may be specified by an administrator, learned by observing network traffic or built with the assistance of routing protocols. Routing,...

distance-vector routing protocols: Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2) Routing Information Protocol Next Generation...

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems...

form each node's routing table. This contrasts with distance-vector routing protocols, which work by having each node share its routing table with its neighbors...

Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an advanced distance-vector routing protocol that is used on a computer network for automating routing decisions...

IP routing is the application of traffic routing methodologies to IP networks. This involves technologies, protocols, structure, administrations, and...

networking, a routing table, or routing information base (RIB), is a data table stored in a router or a network host that lists the routes to particular...

potential to cause routing loops. While a router may run multiple routing protocols on the same device, it is necessary for the router to implement a process...

Zone Routing Protocol, or ZRP is a hybrid wireless networking routing protocol that uses both proactive and reactive routing protocols when sending information...

proprietary router redundancy protocol providing load balancing Hot Standby Routing Protocol – a Cisco Systems proprietary router redundancy protocol First...

are several routing protocols that can be used for dynamic routing. Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance-vector routing protocol that prevents...

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm and falls into the...

The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless...

the next router is specified in a similar fashion an IP address/netmask is specified in IP routing tables. There are three routing protocols available...

kinds of service discovery and shared information such as Precision Time Protocol and Routing Information Protocol. Applications can use datagram sockets...

A path-vector routing protocol is a network routing protocol which maintains the path information that gets updated dynamically. Updates that have looped...

Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is a family of multicast routing protocols for Internet Protocol (IP) networks that provide one-to-many and many-to-many...

multicast backbone, Mbone. The protocol is based on the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). The router generates a routing table with the multicast group...

Generic routing encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol developed by Cisco Systems that can encapsulate a wide variety of network layer protocols inside...

all routers. Routing Router Routing protocol Dynamic routing Routing Information Protocol Open Shortest Path First IS-IS Border Gateway Protocol Route flapping...

distance-vector routing protocols like EIGRP, DSDV, and Babel have built-in loop prevention: they use algorithms that assure that routing loops can never...

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related...

In a router, route redistribution allows a network that uses one routing protocol to route traffic dynamically based on information learned from another...

network routing software suite providing implementations of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)...

Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is used by network devices, including routers, to send error...

IPv6 environment, using appropriate routing protocols. The major goal of MPLS development was the increase of routing speed. This goal is no longer relevant...

multicasting on the local subnetwork only. For example, the Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2) uses 224.0.0.9, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) uses...