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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. It is similar to AODV in that it forms a route on-demand when a transmitting...

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. HSRP has the ability...

The Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) was a routing protocol used to connect different autonomous systems on the Internet from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s...

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...

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...

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

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

IP routing is the application of routing methodologies to IP networks. This involves not only protocols and technologies but includes the policies of the...

This is a list of the IP protocol numbers found in the field Protocol of the IPv4 header and the Next Header field of the IPv6 header. It is an identifier...

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) is a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) family multicast routing protocol defined by Experimental RFC 3618...

Multicast routing is one of the routing protocols in IP networking. There are several multicast routing protocols supporting communications where data...

primarily Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used for routing between autonomous systems. IS-IS is a link-state routing protocol, operating by reliably...

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

along a path. RSVP is not a routing protocol but was designed to interoperate with current and future routing protocols. In 2003, development effort...

Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) is a Cisco-developed content-routing protocol that provides a mechanism to redirect traffic flows in real-time...

Routing protocol) OORP (OrderOne Routing Protocol) (OrderOne Networks Routing Protocol) OSPF (Open Shortest Path First Routing) Routing Protocol for Low-Power...

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

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