July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 2: System and Network Administration Overview
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Gateway protocols
Gateway protocols include:
EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol)
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
Protocols for exterior gateways to exchange information
RIP (Routing Information Protocol)
Interior gateway protocol; most popular for LANs
Hello Protocol
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
Interior gateway protocols
Routing daemons
While most networks will use a dedicated router as a gateway, GNU Zebra and
routed, the routing daemons, can be run on a host to make it function as a
gateway. Only one of them can run on a host at any given time. Zebra is the
gateway routing daemon that replaces the older gated routing daemon. It allows a
host to function as both an exterior and interior gateway and simplifies the
routing configuration by combining the protocols RIP, Hello, BGP, EGP, and
OSPF into a single package. We do not cover GNU Zebra in this book.
routed, a network routing daemon that uses RIP, allows a host to function only as
an interior gateway, and manages the Internet routing tables. For more details on
routed, see Chapter 3.
Routing tables
Routing tables provide information needed to route packets to their destinations.
This information includes destination network, gateway to use, route status, and
number of packets transmitted. ...
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