Missed the beginning of this thread, but from what I have seen it walks the
edge of something central to what we all do or hope to do for a living.
To whit, what does a router do, and how does it do it?
I don't recall seeing this discussed anyplace except in one of the white
papers on certification zone ( plug plug www.certificationzone.com )
packet received by router
router checks forwarding table ( routing table )
if it finds a match it forwards the packet out the appropriate interface.
note that in no part of this process does anything like OPSF of RIP or EIGRP
play a part.
how do routes get into a routing table? only two ways I can think of ( three
if one considers Cisco On Demand Routing (ODR)
understanding this process is a left handed way of understanding the
difference between routed and routing protocols.
Chuck
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Donald B Johnson jr
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Actually it is a yes or no question.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Dixon"
To: "Donald B Johnson jr"
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: [7:11709]
> cdp is a broadast and a proprietary protocol used by Cisco devices to
> discover other Cisco devices.
> Thus Cisco Discovery Protocol. (CDP)
> How would you use RIP to route a broadcast packet? Why would you want
> broadcasts to propagate across your router(S)?
>
> Curious though,
> to what are you referring when you asked can a router route without a
> protocol? surely this is a rhetorical quesiton.
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