Static and Dynamic Routing Protocols
Finally, you may also occasionally see routing protocols categorized by type as static and dynamic. This terminology is somewhat misleading.
The term static routing simply refers to a situation where the routing tables are manually set up so that they remain static. In contrast, dynamic routing is the use of routing protocols to dynamically update routing tables. Thus, all routing protocols are dynamic. There is no such thing as a static routing protocol (unless you consider a network administrator who is editing a routing table a protocol).
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