Question

You are a network administrator in a medium-sized company. The owner has heard of using RIP and OSPF on the routers and that it will help your network. He isn't very computer savvy, so he wants you to explain it to him and tell him what to use and how you are going to implement it. Write a memo using standard memo format that outlines this for your company's owner using either a Microsoft Word Memo template or another example, including diagrams if necessary. You can use any drawing software (Visio, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) to create the diagram.

Answer 1

Rip and OSPF the routing protocol used by the routers in order to find the smallest and least costing path from source to destination. When any router is first initialise it contains an empty routing table table has columns for making entry of of various interface present on the router, the network ID and hop count column. This routing table is filled with all the relevant details based on the routing protocol configured on the router as and when any e router is connected to a network. Cisco routers automatically sale entry to this table by sending ping request to every other networks on all the interfaces.

Rip routing protocol uses metric of of distance among the the alternate Path to select the route to the destination where as in OSPF, the bandwidth and link state in the network line is selected as metric for path selection. Boots the routing protocol has their own advantages and disadvantages. In order to implement routing protocol on the router, we need to you first start configuring the router with all its basic configuration is of IP address on all the interfaces as well as multiplexity. To configure route protocol we have certain commands in Cisco routers for both rip protocol and spf protocol which requires the network ID and command for both to establish route table. All the configuration of routers are done by connecting routers with console cable to the computer or instead, for a large number of routers, we can use network administrative software and hardware units.