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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...