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From: forster@CISCO.COM (Jim Forster)
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Subject: Re: Routing Protocols
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Date: 17 Nov 89 07:11:51 GMT
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Dale,

If you would like to read about the algorithms and protocols, IGRP is
described in the document igrp.ps or igrp.doc, on ftp.cisco.com
(131.108.1.27.  The 'dir' command is disabled on that machine, but you may
use 'get' on those filenames).  OSPF is described in RFC1131, and RIP in
1058.

The algorithms & protocols described by these documents are only part of
the answer to your question.  Implementations can have important features,
which allow one to control who is listened to and believed, for instance,
which are not neccessarily part of the specification.


Jim Forster
cisco Systems