I have just started learning about routers and switches and how they are used in designing a network.
Connecting multiple routers and making them self-configure, causes them to dynamically discover the distance between multiple hosts and destinations, in turn, enabling them to find the shortest path while delivering a packet to a destination. I also understand that public IP addresses are distributed to ISPs by IANA.
But what is stopping us from connecting multiple ISPs to a single router or a combination of routers and configuring a unique public IP address ourselves without referring to IANA? Will this setup work?.
Or is my understanding of this whole concept is wrong?
