The Control Plane: Static & Dynamic Routing

In this section, we discuss the three main techniques that can be used to maintain the routing tables in a network.

The main purpose of the control plane is to maintain and build routing tables. This is done via a number of algorithms and protocols which we will discuss here.

Note: Routing Algorithms vs. Routing Protocols. The software/hardware implementation of routing algorithms are known as routing protocols!

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