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First-hop redundancy

The first hop redundancy, gateway load balancing is really not that scary or difficult. For the Cisco certification the candidates are required to have some basic understanding of the Gateway Redundancy Protocols: FHRP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

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EIGRP

The EIGRP stands for Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol At first I was a bit confused about the EIGRP. It was somewhat similar to the RIP and OSPF in terms of some terminology.

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OSPF

The OSPF is link-state routing protocol. Link state protocol is such that the metric is based on bandwidth, load, reliability etc. of a given link as oppose to number of hops between networks.

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