Similar protocols

IGRP: Cisco's proprietary Interior Gateway Acquisition Agreement (IGRP) was a somewhat added able agreement than RIP. It belongs to the aforementioned basal ancestors of distance-vector acquisition protocols. Cisco has accomplished abutment and administration of IGRP in their router software. It was replaced by the Enhanced Interior Gateway Acquisition Agreement (EIGRP) which is a absolutely new design. While EIGRP still uses a distance-vector model, it relates to IGRP alone in application the aforementioned acquisition metrics. IGRP supports assorted metrics for anniversary route, including bandwidth, delay, load, MTU, and reliability.