Routing Protocols and Concepts – Chapter 3
- 1. © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 1 Version 4.0 Introduction to Dynamic Routing Protocol Routing Protocols and Concepts – Chapter 3
- 2. 2 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Objectives Describe the role of dynamic routing protocols and place these protocols in the context of modern network design. Identify several ways to classify routing protocols. Describe how metrics are used by routing protocols and identify the metric types used by dynamic routing protocols. Determine the administrative distance of a route and describe its importance in the routing process. Identify the different elements of the routing table.
- 3. 3 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Dynamic Routing Protocols Function(s) of Dynamic Routing Protocols: – Dynamically share information between routers. – Automatically update routing table when topology changes. – Determine best path to a destination.
- 4. 4 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Dynamic Routing Protocols The purpose of a dynamic routing protocol is to: – Discover remote networks – Maintaining up-to-date routing information – Choosing the best path to destination networks – Ability to find a new best path if the current path is no longer available
- 5. 5 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Dynamic Routing Protocols Components of a routing protocol – Algorithm • In the case of a routing protocol algorithms are used for facilitating routing information and best path determination – Routing protocol messages • These are messages for discovering neighbors and exchange of routing information
- 6. 6 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Dynamic Routing Protocols Advantages of static routing – It can backup multiple interfaces/networks on a router – Easy to configure – No extra resources are needed – More secure Disadvantages of static routing – Network changes require manual reconfiguration – Does not scale well in large topologies
- 7. 7 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols Dynamic routing protocols are grouped according to characteristics. Examples include: – RIP – IGRP – EIGRP – OSPF – IS-IS – BGP Autonomous System is a group of routers under the control of a single authority.
- 8. 8 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols Types of routing protocols: – Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP) – Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGP)
- 9. 9 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols Interior Gateway Routing Protocols (IGP) – Used for routing inside an autonomous system & used to route within the individual networks themselves – Examples: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF Exterior Routing Protocols (EGP) – Used for routing between autonomous systems – Example: BGPv4
- 10. 10 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols IGP: Comparison of Distance Vector & Link State Routing Protocols Distance vector – Routes are advertised as vectors of distance & direction – Incomplete view of network topology – Generally, periodic updates Link state – Complete view of network topology is created – Updates are not periodic
- 11. 11 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols
- 12. 12 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols Classful routing protocols – Do NOT send subnet mask in routing updates Classless routing protocols – Do send subnet mask in routing updates
- 13. 13 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Classifying Routing Protocols Convergence is defined as when all routers’ routing tables are at a state of consistency
- 14. 14 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Routing Protocols Metrics Metric – A value used by a routing protocol to determine which routes are better than others
- 15. 15 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Routing Protocols Metrics Metrics used in IP routing protocols – Bandwidth – Cost – Delay – Hop count – Load – Reliability
- 16. 16 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Routing Protocols Metrics The Metric Field in the Routing Table Metric used for each routing protocol – RIP - hop count – IGRP & EIGRP - Bandwidth (used by default), Delay (used by default), Load, Reliability – IS-IS & OSPF - Cost, Bandwidth (Cisco’s implementation)
- 17. 17 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Routing Protocols Metrics Load balancing – This is the ability of a router to distribute packets among multiple same cost paths
- 18. 18 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Administrative Distance of a Route Purpose of a metric – It’s a calculated value used to determine the best path to a destination Purpose of Administrative Distance – It’s a numeric value that specifies the preference of a particular route
- 19. 19 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Administrative Distance of a Route Identifying the Administrative Distance (AD) in a routing table – It is the first number in the brackets in the routing table
- 20. 20 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Administrative Distance of a Route Dynamic Routing Protocols
- 21. 21 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Administrative Distance of a Route Directly connected routes – Have a default AD of 0 Static Routes – Administrative distance of a static route has a default value of 1
- 22. 22 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Administrative Distance of a Route Directly connected routes – Immediately appear in the routing table as soon as the interface is configured
- 23. 23 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Summary Dynamic routing protocols fulfill the following functions – Dynamically share information between routers – Automatically update routing table when topology changes – Determine best path to a destination Routing protocols are grouped as either – Interior gateway protocols (IGP)Or – Exterior gateway protocols(EGP) Types of IGPs include – Classless routing protocols - these protocols include subnet mask in routing updates – Classful routing protocols - these protocols do not include subnet mask in routing update
- 24. 24 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Summary Metrics are used by dynamic routing protocols to calculate the best path to a destination Administrative distance is an integer value that is used to indicate a router’s “trustworthiness” Components of a routing table include: – Route source – Administrative distance – Metric
- 25. 25 © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public