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When a router boots, it does not know any destination in the network and its routing table only contains its local address(es). It thus sends to all its neighbors a distance vector that contains only its address at a distance of `0`. When a router receives a distance vector on link `l`, it processes it as follows.
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The router iterates over all addresses included in the distance vector. If the distance vector contains a destination address that the router does not know, it inserts it inside its routing table via link `l` and at a distance which is the sum between the distance indicated in the distance vector and the cost associated to link `l`. If the destination was already known by the router, it only updates the corresponding entry in its routing table if either :
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The first condition ensures that the router discovers the shortest path towards each destination. The second condition is used to take into account the changes of routes that may occur after a link failure or a change of the metric associated to a link.
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To understand the operation of a distance vector protocol, let us consider the network of five routers shown below.
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Assume that router `A` is the first to send its distance vector `[A=0]`.
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`B` and `D` process the received distance vector and update their routing table with a route towards `A`.
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`D` sends its distance vector `[D=0,A=1]` to `A` and `E`. `E` can now reach `A` and `D`.
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`C` sends its distance vector `[C=0]` to `B` and `E`
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`E` sends its distance vector `[E=0,D=1,A=2,C=1]` to `D`, `B` and `C`. `B` can now reach `A`, `C`, `D` and `E`
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`B` sends its distance vector `[B=0,A=1,C=1,D=2,E=1]` to `A`, `C` and `E`. `A`, `B`, `C` and `E` can now reach all five routers of this network.
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`A` sends its distance vector `[A=0,B=1,C=2,D=1,E=2]` to `B` and `D`.
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At this point, all routers can reach all other routers in the network thanks to the routing tables shown in the figure below.
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To deal with link and router failures, routers use the timestamp stored in their routing table. As all routers send their distance vector every `N` seconds, the timestamp of each route should be regularly refreshed. Thus no route should have a timestamp older than `N` seconds, unless the route is not reachable anymore. In practice, to cope with the possible loss of a distance vector due to transmission errors, routers check the timestamp of the routes stored in their routing table every `N` seconds and remove the routes that are older than :math:`3 \times N` seconds.
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When a router notices that a route towards a destination has expired, it must first associate an :math:`\infty` cost to this route and send its distance vector to its neighbors to inform them. The route can then be removed from the routing table after some time (e.g. :math:`3 \times N` seconds), to ensure that the neighboring routers have received the bad news, even if some distance vectors do not reach them due to transmission errors.
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Consider the example above and assume that the link between routers `A` and `B` fails. Before the failure, `A` used `B` to reach destinations `B`, `C` and `E` while `B` only used the `A-B` link to reach `A`. The two routers detect the failure by the timeouts in the affected entries in their routing tables. Both routers `A` and `B` send their distance vector.
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`A` sends its distance vector :math:`[A=0,B=\infty,C=\infty,D=1,E=\infty]`. `D` knows that it cannot reach `B` anymore via `A`
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`D` sends its distance vector :math:`[D=0,B=\infty,A=1,C=2,E=1]` to `A` and `E`. `A` recovers routes towards `C` and `E` via `D`.
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`B` sends its distance vector :math:`[B=0,A=\infty,C=1,D=2,E=1]` to `E` and `C`. `C` learns that there is no route anymore to reach `A` via `B`.
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`E` sends its distance vector :math:`[E=0,A=2,C=1,D=1,B=1]` to `D`, `B` and `C`. `D` learns a route towards `B`. `C` and `B` learn a route towards `A`.
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Consider now that the link between `D` and `E` fails. The network is now partitioned into two disjoint parts: (`A` , `D`) and (`B`, `E`, `C`). The routes towards `B`, `C` and `E` expire first on router `D`. At this time, router `D` updates its routing table.
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