Routing Protocols
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Routing Protocols — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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What is OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)?
OSPF is a link-state interior gateway routing protocol that lets routers within a single autonomous system share their local link information with every other…
What is BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)?
BGP is the path-vector routing protocol that connects autonomous systems across the internet, exchanging reachability information as a full list of the AS numb…
Broadcast vs Multicast vs Unicast
Unicast sends a packet from one sender to exactly one receiver, broadcast sends it from one sender to every device on the local network segment, and multicast…
Static vs Dynamic Routing: What is the Difference?
Static routing means an administrator manually configures fixed routes in a router’s routing table, while dynamic routing means routers automatically discover…
What is Administrative Distance?
Administrative distance (AD) is a per-protocol trust rating, typically 0-255, that a router uses to decide which source to believe when it learns a route to th…
Distance-Vector vs Link-State Routing
Distance-vector routing (e.g., RIP) has each router share its entire routing table with only its direct neighbors and pick paths based on hop count or a simple…
What is Anycast DNS?
Anycast DNS is a routing technique where the same IP address is announced from multiple physically distributed DNS servers, and the internet’s routing infrastr…