Route Redistribution: Beyond Inherent Metrics

2019

English

Route redistributions are considered necessary in various contexts, some of which are as a result of multiple departments managed by multiple network administrators, multi-vendor environments and company mergers. This study set out to redistribute routes between RIP and EIGRP routing protocols and assess the performance beyond inherent metrics. Round trip times over varied bandwidths were used as a basis for comparison with RIP and EIGRP used as the routing protocols. An experiment was set up using the Packet Tracer simulator and two separate networks were integrated via route redistribution of the two routing protocols. Despite regular surges in data transmission as a result inherent routing protocols’ propagation of learned routes and advertisements, the results obtained from the experiment suggests that inherent metrics of the routing protocols do still play a significant role and is an integral component in determining performance of network links with redistributed routes.

Danquah, P.