Andy
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From: Frank Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: where is routing table located in the router?
> An article said the routing table is located in RAM.
> I got a littl
Interesting question.
Yes the routing table is dynamically built by routing protocols.
There are also static routing entries if you created in your
configuration file. Locally connected active networks will be
entered into the routing table immediately after the reset.
If the question goes to ho
The routing tables are held in RAM. The time to build
a table is not very long, were talking miniscule. If
the table is large, say it contains BGP routes, it
could take a a few seconds. It rely depends on the
processor in the router and the routing protocol.
Route tables are supposed to be dyna
>An article said the routing table is located in RAM.
Correct.
>I got a little puzzled ,cause if the router is powered off by accident,
>will the table get lost totally?
Yes, with the caveat that static routes are an _input_ to the routing table.
>If the router is a backbone one,the table shou
RAM is correct, because the routing table needs to be rebuilt if the router is powered
of & on (from connected interfaces, static routes, & learned routes from whatever
routing protocol(s)you're running).
>>> "Frank Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/14/00 07:06AM >>>
An article said the routing ta
An article said the routing table is located in RAM.
I got a little puzzled ,cause if the router is powered off by accident,
will the table get lost totally?
If the router is a backbone one,the table should be very big ,so after
the power cycle ,the router has to attain all the routes once again,i
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