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The description of how this protocol actually works is woefully wrong, and seems to consist mostly of the Cisco marketing blather about how good it is. It is '''not''' in any way a link-state protocol, and does not have a complete topology map (even though the documentation speaks of "Topology Table" - which is basically just a copy of each neighbour's routing table). I did find one Cisco document that's reasonably technically accurate, and will reference it in the article. Are there actually any public-___domain specifications of the protocol that we can reference? I found one thing that's pretty reasonable, will add that too. [[User:Jnc|Noel]] [[User_talk:Jnc|(talk)]] 17:55, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
==EIGRP is '''not''' a link-state protocol==
I'm getting '''really''' tired of seeing the Cisco marketing balderdash about [[EIGRP]] being a "hybrid" of [[link-state routing]] and destination-vector routing spammed across Wikipedia, and even more tired of seeing repeatedly inserted after I keep removing it. I'm therefore going to spam ''this'' across every Talk: page where I see this claim, and a shorter note to the effect that EIGRP has no link-state stuff at all, in the articles.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that EIGRP has any link-state aspects.
EIGRP is simply a multi-metric, event-driven, destination-vector routing protocol. Neither the "multi-metric" part nor the "event-driven" part has anything to do with link-state.
Link-state protocols have the following characteristics:
* they distribute topology maps, not routing tables
* nodes run a shortest-path algorithm such as Dijkstra over the map to produce the routing table
EIGRP does neither.
Clearly, one can design link-state protocols to be either event-driven, or not; all done to date (from the original "new" [[ARPANet]] routing algorithm) have been so, but that's purely a design decision. Event-driven or not-event-drive is a completely separate design axis.
Now stop adding this bogus nonsense! [[User:Jnc|Noel]] [[User_talk:Jnc|(talk)]] 05:01, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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