GATE CS 2014 Set 2 — Question 33
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Which one of the following is TRUE about the interior gateway routing protocols — Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)?
Correct answer
(A) RIP uses distance vector routing and OSPF uses link state routing
Solution
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance-vector routing protocol that uses the Bellman-Ford algorithm to determine the best path based on hop count. Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state routing protocol that uses Dijkstra's algorithm to calculate the shortest path tree based on link costs. Therefore, option (A) is the correct statement.
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