Thursday, 19 August 2010

Routing Protocols and Protocol Numbers

Routing protocols  working on differenet layers.IGRP .EIGRP and OSPF are transport layer Protocaols that run directly over IP.where as RIP and BGP are Applicationn Layer Protocols.BGP using TCP as transport Protocols.
                           Protocol        Protocol number
                          ======        ===========
                              IGRP              9
                              EIGRP           88
                              OSPF            99
                              RIP                UDP 520
                              BGP              TCP 179

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