Summary

This chapter covered the IP routing process in detail. It’s extremely important that you really understand the basics we covered in this chapter because everything that’s done on a router typically will have some type of IP routing configured and running.

You learned in this chapter how IP routing uses frames to transport packets between routers and to the destination host. Understanding the process of how packets and frames traverse a network is critical to your fundamental understanding of IP routing.

After I covered the basics of IP routing, I went through some examples to test your understanding and to emphasize the importance of the IP routing fundamentals that you need. I finished the chapter with an introduction to static and dynamic routing and explained IGP and EGP as well as the difference between distance vector and link state routing protocols. In the next chapter, we’ll continue with dynamic routing by discussing the various dynamic routing protocols...