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In [[routing protocol]]s, the '''split horizon rule''' states that a [[router]] must not readvertise a route to the router from which a route was first learned.  It is a means of preventing loops from forming, and is used with distance vector protocols such as [[Routing Information Protocol]] (RIP) and the [[Interior Gateway Routing Protocol]], and the path vector protocol, Border Gateway Protocol.
==Distance vector==
===General case===
===Poisoned reverse===
"If two routers have routes pointing at each other, advertising reverse routes with a metric of 16 will break the loop  immediately.  If the reverse routes are simply not advertised, the  erroneous routes will have to be eliminated by waiting for a timeout.    However, poisoned reverse does have a disadvantage: it increases the    size of the routing messages."<ref>{{citation
| url = http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2453.txt
| title = Routing Information Protocol, Version 2 | author = G. Malkin
| date = November 1996 | publisher = Internet Engineering Task Force}}</ref>
===Nonbroadcast multiaccess case===
==Path vector==
==References==
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In routing protocols, the split horizon rule states that a router must not readvertise a route to the router from which a route was first learned. It is a means of preventing loops from forming, and is used with distance vector protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, and the path vector protocol, Border Gateway Protocol.

Distance vector

General case

Poisoned reverse

"If two routers have routes pointing at each other, advertising reverse routes with a metric of 16 will break the loop immediately. If the reverse routes are simply not advertised, the erroneous routes will have to be eliminated by waiting for a timeout. However, poisoned reverse does have a disadvantage: it increases the size of the routing messages."[1]

Nonbroadcast multiaccess case

Path vector

References

  1. G. Malkin (November 1996), Routing Information Protocol, Version 2, Internet Engineering Task Force