Its All About IP Routing Protocols

Two entities cannot communicate with each other without any predefined rules or criteria. These entities must be agreed on a protocol for a reliable communication to occur. A routing protocol is a set of rules that direct data communication. What is communicated, how it is communicated, and when it is communicated all are defined by a protocol. It is possible without a protocol two devices are connected but they cannot communicate without a protocol. Connection without a protocol is same as a person speaking French cannot be understood by person who speaks only English. (Forouzan, 2001).

In straightforward terms, a protocol is a pre defined set of rules that establish how something wills operate. Thus routing protocols are set of rules that illustrate how routing devices will communicate with each other about the existing or their known networks and determine the best path toward a destination. In general when all routers agreed on some predefined set of routing rules (Routing Protocols) they start sending and receiving updates messages from the other participating routers, these updates are called routing updates, and on the base of these routing updates Routing Protocols decides the best path toward destinations, and keep them in their Routing tables. Examples of routing protocols are RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, RTMP, AURP, NLSP, RTP and BGP e.t.c. whereas routed protocols are used to transfer data from one end device to another. The routed protocol is the datagram that carries the application data and the information about the destination end node, examples of the routed protocols are IP, IPX, VINES, APPLETALK and DECNET e.t.c.

The scope of this site is to deal with Routed protocol IP and its corresponding routing protocols such as RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP and MPLS. You’ll learn all about IP Routing Protocols in detail and their real life implementations with case study scenarios, IP routing is a complex topic largely because so many of the concepts and technologies are closely related. It consists of a number of defining concepts and protocols, many of which interact in a specific way. For example, we can’t straightforwardly describe IP Routing Protocols without the knowledge of IP addressing which again difficult to understand without the understanding of IP datagram formatting.

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Here you will find the all the information, labs and study materials useful to you in your studies of IP Routing Protocols. The concepts of IP Routing and the technicalities of the process are treating with commonly as a basis for the data networks. It is the method of transferring packets from one network to another network using routing devices. But before you put your hands on this site, you must know the difference between a routing and routed protocols

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