Question

Routing Protocols. Are routed protocol and routing protocol the same? Give examples of both. What routing protocol(s) are you planning to use in your enterprise network? Justify your selection. As the enterprise network uses private ip addresses, what routing feature does need to be configured to access the WAN with public ip address? What device does have the feature?

Answer 1

Hi, I would love to answer you with this question. I hope you will get a clear idea of the questions. So not wasting much time let's get started.

The answer would be in parts as in the question.

1. Are routed protocol and routing protocol the same?

• No, both the routed protocol and the routing protocols are not the same. The routed protocol is the protocols which are been used to route the data over the network whereas the routing protocol are been used over the routers for the connection and maintaining the routing tables.
• Routed protocols - IP, IPX, AppleTalk
• Routing protocols - RIP, EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF

2. What routing protocol(s) are you planning to use in your enterprise network? Justify your selection.

• RIP or EIGRP The two routing protocols are written as if the enterprise network is small then the RIP must be configured and if the network is large enough then the EIGRP would be preferred as the RIP is more secure and difficult to configure and EIGRP is less secure and easy to configure.

3. As the enterprise network uses private IP addresses, what routing feature does need to be configured to access the WAN with a public IP address?

• This was the question I was waiting for :) the enterprise uses the private addresses for its network but it needs to be connected to the WAN through the internet and the private addresses cannot directly access to the internet so as to make this happen the routing feature used is NAT (Network Address Translation).
• This NAT service converts the private IP to the public IP used by the enterprise and when the message is received back it resolves it to the private address.

4. What device does have the feature?

• The device having the NAT feature is none other than the router this is on the network or the enterprise level. But if you use the virtual machine and want to have an internet access to it you computer should also have NAT enabled during the connection so as to access the internet.

I hope the answers make your doubts clear and you got something good to learn.

Please give the thums up to an answer and do comment for any queries

Thanks and Happy to help :)

HAPPY LEARNING