Chapter 15
Splitting the Autonomous System into Areas
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new EYES.
This chapter defines the reach of operations, or domain, of the routing protocol of a network and discusses how the domain is kept under control by network segmentation to ensure efficient use and management of resources.
The Autonomous System Split into Areas
The term routing domain has been liberally used until now without expressly defining it. Somewhere earlier, it was implied that a routing domain is the purview of the routing protocol. A more specific definition is in order ...
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