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Question for specialists in protocol eigrp sends several types of data from those data (query) what is the purpose why it sends?

بروتوكول EIGRP يرسل عدة بكتات منها بكت (Query) لماذا يرسلها?

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Question added by abdalrahman mohmmad , IT Engineer , mixfm
Date Posted: 2013/10/03
syed abdulbasith
by syed abdulbasith , System administrator , GRAPE SOFT

query is used to query routes from neighbors (multicast; unicast attempted up to16 times if multicast gets no response)

Saqib Mehmood
by Saqib Mehmood , Technical Team Lead/Safety Supervisor , Xchange Technology Group

When a router is performing route computation and does not have a feasible successor, it sends a query packet to its neighbors, asking if they have a successor to the destination. Queries are normally multicast but an be retransmitted as unicast packets in certain cases; they are sent reliably.  

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