Dynamic Routing: CISCO
PACKET TRACER and RIP
Dynamic Routing Protocol is divided into two main parts.
1. Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)
2.Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
This section will look at Interior Gateway Protocols.
-this is an autonomous system and handled by only one
admin.
-this protocol is also divided into two parts,
1. Distant Vector Protocols (Bellman-Ford Algorithm) —
distance is measured by `hop count` and use for simple
networks
2. Link State Protocol (Dijkstra Algorithm) — this uses some
other information like neighbor router info and this is best
for complex network designs. In this scenario, we are using
the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) as the dynamic
routing protocol.
So below mentioned diagram is the network plan for a
small network.
In this Network diagram,
192.168.10.0 , 192.168.30.0 , 192.168.20.0 , 10.0.0.0 ,
11.0.0.0 are 5 different networks.
Router 1, Router 2, Router 3 is routers in this network.
PC 1, PC 2, PC 3 are computers (end devices) in this
network.
Black dashed lines are Copper Cross-Over cables which use
to connect different types of devices.
Red color lines are Serial DCE cables which are building the
connection between two routers.
PC 1 — IP Address: 192.168.10.1(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
Default Gateway: 192.168.10.100(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
PC 2 — IP Address: 192.168.30.1(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
Default Gateway : 192.168.30.100(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
PC 3 — IP Address: 192.168.20.1(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
Default Gateway: 192.168.20.100(Fast Ethernet 0/0)
Router 1 — IP Address (SERIAL 0/2/0): 10.0.0.200
IP Address (SERIAL 0/2/1): 11.0.0.200
Router 2 — IP Address (SERIAL 0/0/0): 10.0.0.100
IP Address (Fast Ethernet 0/0): 192.168.10.100
Router 3 — IP Address (SERIAL 0/0/0): 11.0.0.100
IP Address (Fast Ethernet 0/0): 192.168.20.100
After configuring these IP addresses to the corresponding
devices only, we should configure dynamic routing to the
network.
When doing dynamic routing using RIP protocol first we
should identify the networks which are connected to each
router and for those routers we have to connect those
networks through RIP.
So below mentioned procedure will guide you to do the RIP
dynamic routing.
1. Router 1 configuration steps.
2. Router 2 configuration steps.
3. Router 3 configuration steps.
After Configuring three routers as above mentioned, we can
now send packets through one end to another. To check
whether it is working we can check by ping command.
PING command can check the connection between two end
devices and have to execute in the terminal of the source
device.
PING <IP address of the destination>
Now we will just get an example to demonstrate this
scenario. So for that, we will take PC 1 as the SOURCE
DEVICE and PC 3 as the DESTINATION DEVICE.
PC 1 IP- 192.168.10.1
PC 3 IP- 192.168.20.1
Below figure we can see that the data packets transfer and
the data packets which have lost their path.
In this figure, it shows the path to the destination device (PC
3) from the source device (PC 1).
For this, we are using TRACERT <DESTINATION IP
ADDRESS> (TRACEROUTE) and it will show us the
complete path and the time consumed to transfer data.
