Talk:Link-state routing protocol
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This page is pretty bad. I will re-write it totally at some point, but I don't have time to do so now. Noel (talk) 18:50, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- How is it bad? Isn't it's information correct? Mikelito
[edit] EIGRP is not a link-state protocol
I'm getting really tired of seeing the Cisco marketing balderdash about EIGRP being a "hybrid" of link-state routing and destination-vector routing spammed across Wikipedia, and even more tired of seeing repeatedly inserted after I keep removing it. I'm therefore going to spam this across every Talk: page where I see this claim, and a shorter note to the effect that EIGRP has no link-state stuff at all, in the articles.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that EIGRP has any link-state aspects.
EIGRP is simply a multi-metric, event-driven, destination-vector routing protocol. Neither the "multi-metric" part nor the "event-driven" part has anything to do with link-state.
Link-state protocols have the following characteristics:
- they distribute topology maps, not routing tables
- nodes run a shortest-path algorithm such as Dijkstra over the map to produce the routing table
EIGRP does neither.
Clearly, one can design link-state protocols to be either event-driven, or not; all done to date (from the original "new" ARPANet routing algorithm) have been so, but that's purely a design decision. Event-driven or not-event-drive is a completely separate design axis.
Now stop adding this bogus nonsense! Noel (talk) 05:00, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Sugestion
A link-state routing protocol is one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet-switched networks for computer communications.
- Witch is the other main routing protocol??? Maybe distance-vector routing protocol?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.214.181.212 (talk) 08:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC).
