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| | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | IGRP was created in part to overcome the limitations of RIP (maximum hop count, and a single routing metric) when used within large networks. |
 | | IGRP supports multiple metrics for each route, including bandwidth, load, delay, and reliability; to compare two routes these metrics are combined together into a single metric, using a formula which can be adjusted through the use of pre-set constants. |
 | | Its successor is EIGRP, an advanced distance-vector routing protocol, that uses many features of link-state protocols, and adds Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL) ideas to the basic distance-vector mechanism of IGRP. |
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