February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
387 pages
7h 36m
English
There are two types of route advertising protocols used in the data communications industry: (a) distance-vector and (b) link state metric. Their operations are summarized in Table 3-1.
| Distance-vector (Minimum hop) |
| Route between sending and receiving machine: |
|
| Incremental distributed route calculation |
| Link state metric |
| Route between sending and receiving machine: |
|
| Routes determined by a replicated database of metrics |
The distance-vector protocol is more commonly known as a minimum hop protocol, which means the protocol searches for a path between a sending and receiving node that has the fewest number of intermediate ...
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