IGP And EGP Routing Protocols | Difference Between IGP And EGP

Interior Gateway Protocol: IGP is used to learn the route of an single organization. For example, an organization has 200 branches, IGP learn all the route of that branches.

All routing protocol are work on IGP except BGP.

Exterior Gateway Protocol: EGP is used to learn the route of two Autonomous System or Two organization.

BASIS FOR COMPARISONDISTANCE VECTOR ROUTINGLINK STATE ROUTING
AlgorithmBellman fordDijsktra
Network viewTopology information from the neighbour point of viewComplete information on the network topology
Best path calculationBased on the least number of hopsBased on the cost
UpdatesFull routing tableLink state updates
Updates frequencyPeriodic updatesTriggered updates
Convergence timeModerateFast
UpdatesOn broadcastOn multicast

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