Although RIPv2 presents some decided improvements over RIPv1, it is still limited to a maximum of 15 hops and, therefore, to small networks. Chapter 7, "Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)," Chapter 8, "OSPFv2," and Chapter 10, "Integrated IS-IS," examine three protocols that can be used in much larger networks and with which design strategies such as VLSM become very powerful tools for controlling them. |