1.8. Task 1.8: Planning for Static and Dynamic Routing

Networks that include more than one router need to include some form of routing scheme, either static or dynamic. Static routing requires you to manually configure the routers to know about remote networks; dynamic routing allows the routers to automatically inform one another of local networks that might be remote to their neighboring routers. In networks that include only a single router, the router learns of its attached networks from the configured interface IP addresses and masks. The lone router does not share this information with any other device nor does it require information from any other device. This fact, coupled with the fact that there are no remote networks in a one-router ...

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