Internet Routing Protocols
Internet Routing Fundamentals Routers Routers are devices which make it possible to "choose" the path that datagrams will take to arrive at the destination. They are machines with several network interface cards each one of which is linked to a different network. So, in the simplest configuration, the router only has to "look at" what network a computer is located on to send datagrams to it from the originator. However, on the Internet the schema is much more complicated for the following reasons: · The number of networks to which a router is connected is generally large · The networks to which the router is linked can be linked to other networks that the router cannot see directly So, routers work using routing tables and protocols, according to the following model: · The router receives a frame from a machine co...