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The main difference between the two is convergence time. RIP-2 considers link as failed after 180 seconds not receiving updates from it, compared to 40 seconds for OSPF. And OSPF sends route updates immediately in contrast to RIP which sends updates ...
Well, basically, as I understand that, STP finds shortest paths from each switch to the root switch using port weights and makes ports along each path - forwarding and all others - blocking. Now I'm trying to understand what was the point of introduc...
I'm reading Wendell Odom's books and I have a question regarding VLANs and trunking. As far as I understood trunking is needed when you have network which is splitted between several switches. When a host sends a broadcast it has to be delivered to a...
Well, I know about link cost and bandwidth consumption. Scalability is not an issue for our network, we are far from 90 routers.But your answer definitely makes me think that my view is too narrow. I haven't even read about BGP and MPLS. Still prepar...
It's becoming more interesting. As it turned out RIP does send immediate route update on link failure, it's called "Triggered Update".--- Nikita Andreev
One more thing I realized, is that when router receives the packet and sends ARP to look for destination MAC, all switches would have to flood all ports in all VLANs for router to find it. And it would break VLAN concept in its core - broadcast traff...
