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

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...

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,...

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...

network routing protocols. This type of protocols maintains fresh lists of destinations and their routes by periodically distributing routing tables throughout...

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

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

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...

Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) is a distance vector interior gateway protocol (IGP) developed by Cisco. It is used by routers to exchange routing data within...

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

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

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

An interior gateway protocol (IGP) or interior routing protocol is a type of routing protocol used for exchanging routing table information between gateways...

The Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP) is a proactive unicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). WRP uses an enhanced version of the distance-vector...

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

The Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP) is used in load-balancing HTTP requests across multiple proxy cache servers. It works by generating a hash for...

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

supplied by other routing protocols. PIM is not dependent on a specific unicast routing protocol; it can make use of any unicast routing protocol in use on the...

Internet Protocol is responsible for addressing host interfaces, encapsulating data into datagrams (including fragmentation and reassembly) and routing datagrams...

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...

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...

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

Vehicular Reactive Routing protocol (VRR) is a reactive routing protocol with geographical features which is specifically designed for Wireless Access...

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

Protocol (ICMP) upon which it is based defined in IETF RFC 792. IRDP eliminates the need to manually configure routing information. To enable router discovery...

versions of the protocol on several hardware platforms. During development of the protocol the version number of the packet routing layer progressed...

represent the group ID in hex. HSRP is not a routing protocol as it does not advertise IP routes or affect the routing table in any way.[citation needed] HSRP...

routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. The obvious design for a wireless link-state protocol (such as the optimized link-state routing protocol)...

Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing is a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and other wireless ad hoc networks. It was jointly...