Internet Routing Protocol Testing
This application note focuses on what is arguably
the most complex component of managing today's networks
-- the exchange and maintenance of routing information.
The exponential growth in the use of Internet-related
technologies is by now such a well recognized phenomenon
that we can read about this in publications ranging
from research papers to supermarket tabloids. Many readers
recognize that at the core of this information superhighway
lies a complex network of ever-more-powerful switches
and routers.
The primary impetus for this increasing power has been
frequent and significant technological leaps in hardware
design and the usable bandwidth of communications media.
Evolving at the same time as these have been the protocols
and methods for managing these switches and routers
and their operation together as a cohesive network.
This paper focuses on what is arguably the most complex
component of managing these networks -- the exchange
and maintenance of routing information. These protocols
are implemented in complex software. The relative immaturity
of some of these protocols, and especially the unforeseen
scale of the applications, have created an unprecedented
need for the capability to test IP routing protocols.
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