Routing Protocol and Routed Protocol

Protocol : Protocols are nothing but a set of rules. From childhood we had followed the rules in school,home, etc. This all rules are mandatory for smooth functioning of our daily life, like that the set of rules are mandatory for network communication.

There are two terms used Routing protocol and Routed Protocol.

 What is Routing and Routing Protocol ?

 In computer network routing is a process to find the best path to reach destination network.There are different protocols  available for this purpose like RIP ,EIGRP, OSPF etc. This all protocols are working on a different algorithm.

Routing Protocols are further divided into Interior Routing Protocol and Exterior Routing Protocol

Interior Gateway Routing Protocols : The protocols belongs to this category responsible for routing inside the organisation or we can say that inside one domain. Example of  protocols are RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS - IS.

Exterior Gateway Routing Protocols: This type of protocol is used on ISP side or we can say that on the internet to exchange routing information between different autonomous systems.Example of it is BGP .

What is Routed Protocol ?

Routed protocol are responsible to carry the data from one network to another network.Example of this type of protocol is IP , AppleTalk and IPS.

Co-ordinate with Real life Example (Routing and Routed Protocol)

Local Bus Transport: In daily routine local Buses always carry passengers from one stop and drop them at another stop.The Bus route which basically follows is the routing process and imagine the passengers are packets of data carry by bus. So bus itself is a routed protocol responsible to carry data and routing protocol are responsible for finding a path.