Chapter 41. OTHER ROUTING PROTOCOLS

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The Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)—detailed in the preceding chapters—are the three most well-known routing protocols used in the TCP/IP protocol suite. But there are several other TCP/IP routing protocols, and they fall into one of two categories. Some protocols are no longer in use today but are nevertheless interesting from a historical perspective. Others are proprietary RIP and OSPF alternatives that you may occasionally encounter in today's networking world.

In this chapter, I provide a brief description of five additional TCP/IP routing ...

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