Routing Protocols Summary

EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

IGP Interior Gateway Protocol

Distance Vector
Fast convergence
Classless
Creates and maintains the neighbor and topology tables
Sends the following messages: Hello, Update, Query, Reply, and Acknowledge
AD (Administrative Distance) = 90
Metric = Bandwidth, Delay, Load, and Reliability
Max 255 Hops
Algorithm = DUAL
Multicast or Unicast Updates 224.0.0.10
o Bounded Triggered updates only to neighbors that need it

Hello packets sent to maintain neighbor adjacencies

RIPv1 Routing Information Protocol

IGP Interior Gateway Protocol

Distance Vector Protocol
Slow Convergence
Classful
AD (Administrative Distance) = 120
Metric = Hop Count Max 15
Algorithm = Bellman-Ford
Sends updates every 30 seconds of the entire routing table
Broadcasts updates
Sends version 1 updates, but can receive updates from RIPv1 and RIPv2

RIPv2

Classless
Multicast updates 224.0.0.9
Sends version 2 updates and can only receive RIPv2 updates

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol

Path-vector

Classless

OSPF Open Shortest Path First

IGP Interior Gateway Protocol

Link-state Protocol
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Complete map of the network

topology

Fast Convergence

Classless

Uses Wildcard mask (instead of subnet mask)

AD (Administrative Distance) 110

Metric = Cost (Cumulative Link Bandwidth)

Algorithm = Dijkstra or SPF

o Used to calculate the preferred path after the routers have converged.
o Constructs the SPF tree
Hello protocol is used to discover neighbors
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Dead
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LSPs are sent during initial startup

and whenever there is a change in
the topology

Multicasts updates 224.0.0.5 or 224.0.0.6

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4 times the Hello interval

Floods link-state information to all other

link-state routers in the routing area
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Used as keepalives to monitor the

state of each neighbor
Form neighbor adjacencies
Sent every 10 seconds on multiaccess and point-to-point networks
Sent every 30 seconds on NBMA
networks
Interval

OSPFv3 FF02::5 or FF02::6

Router ID is used to choose a Designated Router (DR), Backup Designated Router (BDR),
and DROther.

Highest Priority = DR
If Priority value is the same then the Router ID is chosen in this order:
Assign a Router ID (R1(config-router)#router-id 10.0.0.1)
Choose Highest Loopback address
Choose Highest IPv4 address of any physical interface
OSPFv3 routing is enabled on the interface
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