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To: Grommit who wrote (6045)	11/17/1997 5:16:00 PM
From: Seth Leyton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

no

To: Grommit who wrote (6045)	11/18/1997 6:10:00 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

A router must know where to send data next. The router holds routing tables which it uses to determine which router the data should be sent to next, dependent on the final destination. Imagine a network somewhere is expanded or altered. These routing tables will need to be updated to take account of the new information. This can either be done by a technician manually on all the appropriate routers, or the routers can talk to each other using a routing protocol such as RIP or OSPF. If you have an nBAse router with a proprietary protocol, then all the other routers it needs to share routing information with must use the same protocol. In summary, the nBase proprietary protocol is of limited use in large networks but this should not be a problem in small networks.