Chapter 2. Routing Principles

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • Administrative distance (AD)

  • Autonomous system (AS)

  • Bandwidth

  • Convergence

  • Delay

  • Distance vector

  • Hop count

  • Link state

  • Load

  • Metric

  • Path determination

  • Reliability

  • Routed protocol

  • Routing

  • Routing protocol

  • Switching

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Using the ip route command

  • Using debugging commands to monitor convergence patterns of routing protocols

  • Analyzing routing tables

In this chapter, you will learn about the major functions of a router as well as various routing protocols that can operate on Cisco routers. In addition, you will find out how to analyze the various fields in a routing table.

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