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OSPF – This approach uses a link state routing protocol to generate a
shortest-path tree, then builds up its routing table based on this tree. OSPF
produces a more stable network because the participating routers act on
network changes predictably and simultaneously, converging on the best
route more quickly than RIP.
Router Redundancy – Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual
Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) both use a virtual IP address to
support a primary router and multiple backup routers. The backups can be
configured to take over the workload if the master fails or to load share the
traffic. The primary goal of these protocols is to allow a host device which
has been configured with a fixed gateway to maintain network connectivity
in case the primary gateway goes down.
Address Resolution Protocol – The switch uses ARP and Proxy ARP to
convert between IP addresses and MAC (i.e., hardware) addresses. This
switch supports conventional ARP, which locates the MAC address
corresponding to a given IP address. This allows the switch to use IP
addresses for routing decisions and the corresponding MAC addresses to
forward packets from one hop to the next. You can configure either static
or dynamic entries in the ARP cache.
Proxy ARP allows hosts that do not support routing to determine the
MAC address of a device on another network or subnet. When a host
sends an ARP request for a remote network, the switch checks to see if it
has the best route. If it does, it sends its own MAC address to the host. The
host then sends traffic for the remote destination via the switch, which
uses its own routing table to reach the destination on the other network.
Multicast Filtering – Specific multicast traffic can be assigned to its own
VLAN to ensure that it does not interfere with normal network traffic and
to guarantee real-time delivery by setting the required priority level for the
designated VLAN. The switch uses IGMP Snooping and Query at Layer 2
and IGMP at Layer 3 to manage multicast group registration.