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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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1.4 Introduction to RIPng 15
The following points summarize the key characteristics of the RIPng protocol:
The routing algorithm selects a best route for each possible destination using distance
as the main selection criteria.
Each piece of routing information consists of a destination, a gateway and the distance
to the destination.
A router exchanges routing information with only directly connected routers. Route
information from a new neighboring router can be dynamically reflected, but the state
of each router is not maintained.
Distribution of routing information is unreliable because the routing information is
exchanged over UDP without any application-level acknowledgments.
Origin of a route cannot be identified.
Route computation is
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ISBN: 9780080489308