Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One, 6th Edition

12 Routing Architecture: Cores, Peers, And Algorithms

Chapter Contents

1. 12.1 Introduction, 247

2. 12.2 The Origin Of Forwarding Tables, 248

3. 12.3 Forwarding With Partial Information, 249

4. 12.4 Original Internet Architecture And Cores, 251

5. 12.5 Beyond The Core Architecture To Peer Backbones, 253

6. 12.6 Automatic Route Propagation And A FIB, 254

7. 12.7 Distance-Vector (Bellman-Ford) Routing, 255

8. 12.8 Reliability And Routing Protocols, 257

9. 12.9 Link-State (SPF) Routing, 258

1. Summary, 259

12.1 Introduction

Previous chapters concentrate on the communication services TCP/IP offers to applications and the details of the protocols in hosts and routers that provide the services. In the discussion, we assumed that routers always contain correct routes, ...