Solaris™ 8 Network Administrator Certification Training Guide

TYPES OF ROUTING

There are two types of routing in IP networks: static and dynamic. Static routing, as its name suggests, is fixed routing. Network administrators define static routes, and these are kept constant unless changed manually by an administrator. Dynamic routes, on the other hand, are calculated at runtime depending on network conditions. Different network parameters play an important role in calculating dynamic routes. These parameters include the number of hops between the source and destination hosts, bandwidth on interconnecting network segments, reliability of different paths, time delays, and so on. The routing path also depends on the type of routing protocol used while calculating a route.

If both static and dynamic routes ...