Routing Flashcards
1
Q
what is link state routing
A
- each router shares its neighbourhood knowledge with every other router in the network
- this way all routers have a topology of the network
2
Q
what is flooding
A
sharing neighbour info with network
3
Q
how does routing information protocol work
A
uses hop count as metric for shortest path
4
Q
how does routing information protocol prevent loops
A
by limiting the number of hops allowed from source to destination
5
Q
how does distance vector routing work
A
BELLMAN FORD
compute distance between each router and each possible destination
the information is shared with the neighborhood at regular intervals
