Key design characteristics of IGRP

eng_ahmedas

Hi All
I wish u r in very good health.I am studying now IGRP and read in the CCNA material about the key design characteristics of IGRP which is:

1) The versatility to automatically handle indefinite, complex topologies
2) The flexibility needed to segment with different bandwidth and delay characteristics
3) Scalability for functioning in very large networks

I couldn't understand the three points well.could u please explain to me what meant by them ????

Thanks in advance

nuglobe

If you go to :

http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/PrepCenter?page=main

And sign up, you vsn watch two videos on routing protovols. I watched them earlier and they will answer your question.

lwwarner

eng_ahmedas wrote:

1) The versatility to automatically handle indefinite, complex topologies
2) The flexibility needed to segment with different bandwidth and delay characteristics
3) Scalability for functioning in very large networks

The above points are basically Cisco techno-marketing-speak for why Cisco's proprietary IGRP is better than RIP. They all boil down to the fact that the IGRP metric is not a finite hop count. They are also a perfect example of a Cisco "choose 3" exam question...