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What are the best routing protocols?
EIGRP is a popular choice for routing within campus networks both big and small. Many network engineers believe that EIGRP is the best choice for a routing protocol on private networks because it offers the best balance between speed, scalability and ease of management.
What are the three types of routing performed by BGP?
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Interior Gateway Protocol (IGRP) Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
What are the three routing protocols?
There are mainly 3 different classes of routing protocols:
- Distance Vector Routing Protocol :
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- Link State Routing Protocol :
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- Advantages –
- Advanced Distance vector routing protocol :
What protocol does BGP use?
Border Gateway Protocol
Among routing protocols, BGP is unique in using TCP as its transport protocol. When BGP runs between two peers in the same autonomous system (AS), it is referred to as Internal BGP (iBGP or Interior Border Gateway Protocol).
Is BGP a routing protocol?
“Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The protocol is often classified as a path vector protocol but is sometimes also classed as a distance-vector routing protocol.”
Is BGP a dynamic routing protocol?
Example of dynamic routing protocols are BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP that you can choose according to your topology, specific requirements ( like scenario: WAN, Internet Edge, Data Center, SP networks), technical capabilities (vendor, type of devices, supported protocols) and so on.
How many types of routing protocols are there?
Routing protocols are mechansims by which routing information is exchanged between routers so that routing decisions can be made. In the Internet, there are three types of routing protocols commonly used. They are: distance vector, link state, and path vector.
What characteristics do routing protocols consider when determining the best path?
The best path is selected by a routing protocol based on the value or metric it uses to determine the distance to reach a network. A metric is the quantitative value used to measure the distance to a given network. The best path to a network is the path with the lowest metric.
Is BGP a layer 3 protocol?
BGP community tags can control route advertisement behavior among peers. BGP in networking is based on TCP/IP. It operates on the OSI Transport Layer (Layer 4) to control the Network Layer (Layer 3).
Is BGP Layer 3 or 4?
BGP makes best-path decisions based on current reachability, hop counts and other path characteristics. BGP community tags can control route advertisement behavior among peers. BGP in networking is based on TCP/IP. It operates on the OSI Transport Layer (Layer 4) to control the Network Layer (Layer 3).
What do you need to know about BGP routing protocol?
The current version of BGP is BGP version 4,based on RFC4271.
How does BGP protocol advertise the route?
Issue the basic network command under router BGP. This method is used to originate BGP routes from the autonomous system (AS).
Which routing protocol is best?
Cisco considers EIGRP as the best routing protocol. ISPs have a thing for BGP and IS-IS. Bob in his small startup office with 50 employees and 5 floors uses RIP on his 4 routers. OSPF is preferred in enterprise data centers with multi vendor L3 devices. You see, it all depends….
What is the purpose of BGP?
The main purpose of BGP is to exchange routing updates like other routing protocols, but BGP typically does not exchange individual network routes (but it technically can), it exchanges summaries of network routes. This is because the typical use of BGP is over very large networks including the Internet.