Chapter 37. OVERVIEW OF KEY ROUTING PROTOCOL CONCEPTS

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Routing protocols play an important part in the overall process of routing in an internetwork. It is therefore easiest to understand them in the scope of an overall discussion of routing. It's difficult to describe the individual TCP/IP routing protocols without some background information on how routing protocols work. For this reason, I feel it is worth taking a brief look at key routing protocol concepts so that you will have more luck making sense of the routing protocols described in the next few chapters.

In this chapter, I will provide an overview of the routing protocol architectures, ...

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