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Routing Protocols

Senbonzakura
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In what situation would you use which Routing Protocols?

 

EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, RIPv2?

 

I'm trying to gather a better understanding what situations call for them.

 

Thank you everyone for your help.

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Martin L
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RIPv2 is gone and not used at all; EIGRP is preferred method for DMVPN connections; 

EIGRP and OSPF are used mostly in to connect LANs. Not sure why EIGRP is being phased out in favor of OSPF. For example, SD-WAN doesn't support EIGRP.

BGP is used by medium to large organization to connect to ISP.

IS-IS, and BGP are used mostly by ISP providers; ISIS is internally used by ISPs and some ISPs may use OSPF instead of ISIS. The Internet runs on BGP only!

 

Regards, ML
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Martin L
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RIPv2 is gone and not used at all; EIGRP is preferred method for DMVPN connections; 

EIGRP and OSPF are used mostly in to connect LANs. Not sure why EIGRP is being phased out in favor of OSPF. For example, SD-WAN doesn't support EIGRP.

BGP is used by medium to large organization to connect to ISP.

IS-IS, and BGP are used mostly by ISP providers; ISIS is internally used by ISPs and some ISPs may use OSPF instead of ISIS. The Internet runs on BGP only!

 

Regards, ML
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Leo Laohoo
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@Senbonzakura wrote:

In what situation would you use which Routing Protocols?

 

EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, RIPv2?

 

I'm trying to gather a better understanding what situations call for them.


There are still a lot of networks, big or small, that are still using RIPv1/RIPv2 or IS-IS.  Why?  Because they were built "that way" and no one wants to rock the boat.  

Joseph W. Doherty
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"In what situation would you use which Routing Protocols?"

There are both technical reasons and other considerations in choosing a routing protocol, the latter sometimes considered more important than the former.

For example of the latter, as already mentioned by another poster, choice might be based on what staff is used to supporting.

Another reason is what the equipment will support or the cost of additional licensing fees.

From a technical standpoint, RIP or RIPv2, are most applicable to "small" networks.  Those protocols are often "free" as often included in a basic software package for a device capable of dynamic routing.

From a high level, OSPF, EIGRP and IS-IS are all equivalent, more or less.  IS-IS has some feature useful to ISPs, but might not be available on "Enterprise" devices.  EIGRP is Cisco proprietary, although Cisco has finally released some of it for non-Cisco use.  Unsure whether you need to license that usage, and I believe (?) some EIGRP features are still restricted to Cisco platforms only.  OSPF if often used as the non-Cisco proprietary routing protocol when you need or want something better than RIP/RIPv2.

As already mentioned by others, BGP is generally used when you need to deal with really, really large networks, like the Internet, although it might also be used when you want to "manually" manage your network, as it has lots of "knobs" for that.