This document summarizes several routing protocols:
- RIP (Routing Information Protocol), an interior gateway protocol that shares routing tables periodically and uses hop counts to determine best paths. It has issues with slow convergence and instability.
- OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), an IGP that uses link state routing to calculate shortest paths. Routers flood link state advertisements to maintain synchronized topological databases.
- BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), an exterior gateway protocol used between autonomous systems to exchange routing and reachability information. It uses path vector routing rather than link states.