Review Questions

1: What is a routing protocol?
2: What basic procedures should a routing algorithm perform?
3: Why do routing protocols use metrics?
4: What is convergence time?
5: What is load balancing? Name four different types of load balancing.
6: What is a distance vector routing protocol?
7: Name several problems associated with distance vector protocols.
8: What are neighbors?
9: What is the purpose of route invalidation timers?
10: Explain the difference between simple split horizon and split horizon with poisoned reverse.
11: What is the counting-to-infinity problem, and how can it be controlled?
12: What are holddown timers, and how do they work?
13: What are the differences between distance vector and link state routing protocols? ...

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