When it comes to routing protocols and routes, administrative distance and metrics are two important factors. What exactly do these numbers mean? David Davis introduces you to these two factors and ...

The Internet of Mobile Things has quietly become one of the most demanding environments in modern networking. Billions of ...

Routing protocols were created for routers. These protocols have been designed to allow the exchange of routing tables, or known networks, between routers. There are a lot of different routing ...

At the core of the IP layer is a set of routing functions and routing protocols. This appendix discusses how each of the widely used routing protocols operates. Before delving into the protocols ...

Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, and Open Shortest Path First, or OSPF, are two of the most popular, standards-based dynamic routing protocols used around the world. Although BGP and OSPF are both ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Building enterprise networks with routers and switches ...

A routing table is a set of rules, often viewed in table format, that's used to determine where data packets traveling over an Internet Protocol (IP) network will be directed. This table is usually ...

Network layer routing protocols provide the communication protocols and algorithms for determining routes to every destination and also for distributing the routing information throughout the network.