>Well, it certainly is called a hybrid, but that's marketing hype; it's
>operation is completely DV in nature. It's "hybrid" characteristic is that
>it only sends incremental updates and it establishes neighbor relationships,
>which other DV protocols do not do.
Other old DV protocols.
>
>That does not, however, change its basic nature, which is distance vector.
>
>> Actually EIGRP is a hybrid protocol. I believe it is the ONLY example of
>one, in fact.
>>
>> JW
>>
>> ------------
>> A DV protocol, like RIP or EIGRP, send their entire routing table to
>their
>> directly attached neighbors and then receive their neighbors routing
>tables
>> in return. That's an important point: they send the *entire* routing
>table,
> > not just the routes they know about first hand.
>>
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