What are the differences between an intradomain routing protocol (also called interior gateway protocol or IGP) and an interdomain routing protocol (also called exterior gateway protocol or EGP)? Give examples for each type of protocol.

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In very large internetworks, it is necessary to divide the internetwork into separate
autonomous systems. An Autonomous System (AS) is a portion of the internetwork under the same administrative authority. The protocols used to distribute routing information within an AS are known as Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs). The protocols used to distribute routing information
between ASs are known as Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGPs). In today’s Internet, distance vector protocol like RIP and link state protocols like OSPF Version 2 and IS-IS are used as IGPs whereas the path vector protocol BGP-4 is used as a exterior gateway protocol. Interdomain routing protocol must find valid and stable routes among routing domains, even if each routing domains do not share common route metrics or policies. In an EGP (exterior gateway protocol or interdomain routing protocol), different systems are managed by different policies where BGP may be the only protocol to communicate with each other. Intradomain routing protocol is used to find the optimal paths between networks in the same routing domain within an Autonomous System. In an IGP (interior gateway protocol or intradomain routing protocol), all systems can trust the information provided by other systems in the same domain.

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