This is on a 6509-E being used as a core router and EIGRP for the routing protocol. Am I missing something? Or couldn't the 3 bolded statements be removed without any real change to the routing? EDIT: ...

Routing is the process of determining where to send data packets that are destined for addresses outside the local network. Routers gather and maintain routing information to enable the transmission ...

I ran into Tony Hain at NANOG last week, and he told me he had gotten pounded with questions about IPv4 address exhaustion after my post discussing his and Geoff Huston’s studies. His response to them ...