At the core of the IP layer is a set of routing functions and routing protocols. This appendix discusses how each of the widely used routing protocols operates. Before delving into the protocols ...

Asymmetric TCP/IP routing causes a common performance problem on servers that have more than one network connection. The atypical network flows created by asymmetric routes occur most often in server ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

Segment routing is a modern source-routing architecture that is being developed within the IETF. Traditional IP routing uses destination-based hop-by-hop forwarding. Each intermediate router decides ...

A router is a physical or virtual appliance that passes information between two or more packet-switched computer networks. These networks can be local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) ...

A routing table is a set of rules, often viewed in table format, that's used to determine where data packets traveling over an Internet Protocol (IP) network will be directed. This table is usually ...