Complete the following for this assignment:
- Using the course materials, the textbook, and Web resources, research distance-vector routing protocols with a high concentration on the versions of RIP.
- Use the following questions to help you format your research paper:
- What is the purpose of a routing protocol and how does it differ from a routed protocol?
- What is a distance-vector routing protocol?
- What is a link state routing protocol?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of distance-vector protocols?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of link state protocols?
- What is RIP?
- What is OSPF?
- What are the two versions of RIP, and what are their specific purposes?
- When would you employ RIP, and when would you employ OSPF?
- Describe what is necessary to enable OSPF routing.
- Compile your responses to the above questions in a Word document of 3-5 pages.
2. on a separate page
- How do routing protocols work?
- What are 2 examples of linked-state routing protocols?
- What is 1 example where a linked-state routing protocol should not be used?