31 Days Before Your CCENT Certification

Day 12: Routing and Routers

Protocols such as IP are routed protocols because a router uses the protocol to forward a packet from one router to another. In contrast, the routing protocols discussed on Day 12 are used by routers to exchange routing information.

Table 1-16 describes the various types of routes you may encounter while reading a routing table. Table 1-17 compares the features of distance vector and link-state routing.

Table 1-16. Routes in the Routing Table

Table 1-17. Routing Algorithms

Routers from different autonomous systems ...