One Lesson two Routing Protocols

RIP

When using RIP as Routing protocol the router sends it's routing table (distance vector) is send to all the other routers in the network every 30 seconds or if something changed in the routing table.

Exercise 7.1.3.6:

If something changes you will see a change in the routing table.

 

R...received this network via RIP

C...directly connected

L...Local (IP-Address from the interface)

With the comand R1#sh ip route you only see the networks that the router received via RIP.

 

 Exercise 7.2.2.4 - RIP vs. EIGRP:

To determine the best route RIP and EIGRP use different parameters.
RIP: hops
EIGRP: bandwidth, delay, load (not default, has to be configured), reliability (not default, has to be configured)

 

In this network RIP would choose the lower way, even though the bandwidth is much lower. 

EIGRP (a Routing Protocol by cisco) chooses the upper path because the bandwidth is higher. Therefor EIGRP is faster than RIP. An other good thing about EIGRP is that load-balacing is easy to adjustable.

The administrative distance from EIGRP is lower than the one from RIP.