Introduction to networking

1. Introduction to networking Dynamic routes

2. Objectives • Define dynamic routing and its properties • Describe the classes of routing protocols • Describe the basic router configuration commands for protocols

3. Dynamic routing overview • Dynamic routing allow routers to learn about remote networks fro mother routers and update their own routing tables with new information • Dynamic routing is necessary to allow networks to update and adapt quickly to changes • The success depends on the maintenance of a routing table and timely distribution of knowledge • Dynamic routing depends on routing protocols which describe: • How to send updates • What knowledge is contained in these updates • When to send this knowledge • How to locate recipients of the updates • Administrative distance is used to determine the preferred source of routing updates

4. Routing protocols

5. Identifying the classes of interior gateway routing protocols Determines direction, or vector (exit interface), and Distance (metric) to any link in the internetwork Recreates the exact topology of the entire internetnetwork

6. Distance vector Each router receives a routing table from its directly connected neighbour routers. The distance vector algorithm (Bellman-Ford) does not allow a router to know the exact topology of an internetwork since each router only sees its neighbor routers.

7. Distance vector network discovery The interface that leads to each directly connected network has a distance of 0

8. Distance vector network discovery An analogy of distance vector could be the signs found at a highway intersection. A sign points toward a destination and indicates the distance to the destination. Further down the highway, another sign points toward the destination, but now the distance is shorter. As long as the distance is shorter, the traffic is on the best path.

9. Link state routing protocol features Consists of all LSA’s Link-state advertisement (LSA) - a small packet of routing information that is sent between routers Topological database - a collection of information gathered from LSAs SPF algorithm - a calculation performed on the database that results in the SPF tree Routing table - a list of the known paths and interfaces

10. Shortest path calculations

11. Link state topology changes

12. Link state concerns

13. Routing configuration IP network number of directly connected network GAD(config)#router rip GAD(config-router) #network 172.16.0.0

14. Configure EIGRP • To configure EIGRP on a router • router(config)#router eigrpautonomous-system • router(config)#router eigrp 1 • An autonomous system is a collection of networks under a common administrative control • EIGRP uses a autonomous system number, but calls this a process ID • The process ID essentially refers to an instance of the protocol running on a router • All the routers running in the same routing domain that are using EIGRP must have the same process ID in order to communicate

15. Configure EIGRP with a network address • router(config)#router eigrp 1 • router(config)#network 172.16.0.0

16. Summary • Dynamic routing scales better to larger, more complex networks • They involve more complex protocols that demand a greater knowledge of networking

17. Questions... • ...are there any?