I've been looking, but I cannot seem to find what I'm looking for. Can anyone direct me to any resources on the mechanics on the routing table?
My theory: all routing goes through the routing table and only the routing table. It seems to me that in the running of a router, no packets ever cares about what EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, or RIP are doing. They are abstracted/black-boxed from the packet. If this is true, then, QED, EIGRP does NOT provide load-balancing (as every books seems to suggest); it provides multiple paths to the routing table and THE ROUTING TABLE provides load balancing. This has been driving me mad for the longest time. I work with extreme accuracies in my day job as an escalation engineer (core dump analyzer) and I really need to have this perfectly precise in my mind or I'm going to absolutely lose it. In sum: isn't it all about the routing table... and the routing protocols (IGP/EGP) just provide information to the routing table... with all routing actually routing the routing table and ONLY the routing table? If this is true, then when the routing table is solid... then, you have no reason to look at the routing protocol databases or tables.
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