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Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is a link-state route-discovery protocol that is designed to overcome the limitations of RIP. On large internetworks, OSPF can identify the internetwork topology and improve performance by implementing load balancing and class-of-service routing.