Easy-EIGRP: A Didactic Application for Teaching and Learning of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

Author

Exposito, Jesus ; Trujillo, Valentina ; Gamess, Eric

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Central Univ. of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

fYear

2010

fDate

7-13 March 2010

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

345

Abstract

In this paper we present Easy-EIGRP, an implementation of the EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) protocol developed in Java. Its main goal is to be used as a didactic application in introductory and advanced network courses to support the teaching and learning of EIGRP. Easy-EIGRP has a user-friendly, flexible and robust graphical user interface that allows users to configure all relevant aspects of the network and the EIGRP protocol. It also provides a partial network viewer, an integrated event logger and sniffer, a protocol table viewer, and a graphical viewer of the DUAL (Diffusing Update Algorithm) finite state machine. The initial teaching experiments that we conducted with the usage of Easy-EIGRP indicate that it can dramatically facilitate the learning of EIGRP. Additionally, Easy-EIGRP can be used in a production network as a functional but very limited implementation of the EIGRP protocol.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; finite state machines; graphical user interfaces; routing protocols; telecommunication engineering education; DUAL finite state machine; Easy-EIGRP; didactic application; diffusing update algorithm; enhanced interior gateway routing protocol; robust graphical user interface; Application software; Automata; Computer science; Education; Educational institutions; Graphical user interfaces; Internet; Java; Robustness; Routing protocols; DUAL; Didactic Application; EIGRP; Routing Protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking and Services (ICNS), 2010 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5927-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNS.2010.53

Filename

5460625