Cisco® Network Professional's: Advanced Internetworking Guide

4.5. Summary

You have again covered quite a few things in this chapter. I started off talking about the routing process and how a router makes its decision about where to send traffic. That led you right into the ways that you can give a router the information that it needs in order to route.

You learned about static routing and a few uses for static routes. You learned about default routes and floating static routes. I then showed you the routing tree, which gave you a way to keep track of all the different routing categories and the protocols that fall under each. I went through the EGP and IGP categories. Under the IGPs, you learned about distance vector, link state, and hybrid protocols.

Along the way, you learned about things that could ...