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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

by Chiheb Chebbi
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
9h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

The Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) is a classful distance vector routing protocol. Like RIP, the routing decisions in IGRP are based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm, using the hop counts. It is not an open standard. It is a Cisco proprietary. The maximum supported hops are 255 with a default value of 100. So, it is more scalable for large companies, more than RIP. Also, it is easy to configure:

Router(config)#​ ​router igrp <AS NUM HERE>Router(config-router)#​ ​network < NeT ID Here >

IGRP sends information every 90 seconds periodically in the same autonomous system. This timer is named the update timer. If an update takes more than 270 seconds (​invalid timer), then it will be invalid, and it will ...

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