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Populating and Maintaining the Route Table

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Populating and maintaining the Route Table (and Route Cache) is one of the most critical activities a network engineer performs. Static Routes are one way to populate the table, but Static Routes do not change as the network changes. At first this does not seem like a problem, but even medium–size networks can be too complex to maintain with Static Routes.

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Howser, G. (2020). Populating and Maintaining the Route Table. In: Computer Networks and the Internet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34496-2_12

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