ABSTRACT

Routing is a relevant issue for maintaining good performance and successfully operating in a network. Routing Protocols allow routers to dynamically advertise and learn routes, determine which routes are available and which are the most efficient routes to a destination. In any IP network, routing protocols provide the intelligence that takes a collection of physical links and transforms them into a network that enables packets to travel from one host to another. In this paper we present performance evaluation for the combination of conventional model of “RIP” and “OSPF” routing protocols for network traffic over WAN using OPNET. There is significant improvement in the FTP download response time which is reduced by the order of 3sec. The performance metrics like: point-to-point link utilization has increased from 122% to 133% and throughput has increased from 1547 to 1703packets/sec without significant change in queuing delay for both the protocols.