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Abstract-Certain network routing protocols behave in different ways in different scenarios. It is difficult to choose amongst them a suitable protocol for our implementation. Also certain protocols are susceptible to terms like flooding which can be advantageous and disadvantageous for different situations. There is also a possibility of network bandwidth consumption by the underlying network architecture such as flooding caused by major protocols, moreover learning specific protocols for their performances, manipulation, implementation consumes a lot of time and resources and could be problematic for a network designer to understand different routing algorithms and using large and complex hardware to Index Terms-Convergence of networks, flooding routing algorithms, routing protocols. I. INTRODUCTIONAs we know a network is a group of inter-connected communicating devices such as computers, routers etc. and for proper communication between the devices we need efficient strategies. To control the communication process (multiple devices are connected simultaneously in a network and communication may happen through any device in a network, it is also possible to have only two communicating parties in the network and hence, path determination between the parties is very important as the network is, common for all the entities) so we need a governing party in terms of network communication, which we define as a protocol. Network could be of many types, depending on size, bandwidth etc. and therefore, a suitable strategy, more specifically termed as protocol, is chosen from a list of known protocols and implemented using a predefined structure format and is adopted in an ideal environment for its case. What we generally do is trying and associating our network with that ideal case and then carry our steps further. For a larger environment we also try to improve our protocols efficiency by switching to another protocol or by trying to implement multiple protocols in our network. II. REVIEWHaving several protocols operating on our networks, depending on the network size etc we aimed for the most appropriate protocol available for our network. This part focuses on some of the basic protocols that have been implemented in our network. Apart from these, there are several other protocols available which are required to be understood for their underlying architecture and their basic functionality in the network [1]- [6]. A. RIP: Router Information ProtocolThe Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance vector routing protocol which employs hop count as a routing metric. Various problems faced by the RIP are: 1) VLSM were not supported by RIP version 1.2) The hold down time is 180 seconds. 3) Max number of hops allowed is 15.RIP has "slow convergence" and "count to infinity" problems. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 2, No. 5, October 2012 480 simplify the task can be hazardous. This paper describes an alternate strategy that could be followed for a complex network. It includes a comb...

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