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Mobile Agents are being proposed for an increasing variety of applications. Distance Vector Routing (DVR) is an example of one application that can benefit from an agent-based approach. DVR algorithms, such as RIP, have been shown to cause considerable network resource overhead due to the large number of messages generated at each host/router throughout the route update process. Many of these messages are wasteful since they do not contribute to the route discovery process. However, in an agent-based solution, the number of messages is bounded by the number of agents in the system. In this paper, we present an agent-based solution to DVR. In addition, we will describe agent migration strategies that improve the performance of the route discovery process, namely Random Walk and Structured Walk.