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Define the criteria for best path selection of a router?

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Question added by Faseeh Mohd koya , IT SUPPORT ENGINEER [L2] , Ministry of Sports and Youth
Date Posted: 2016/05/02
Ranjith Kanjoor
by Ranjith Kanjoor , IT Consultant , GOGC Trading & Contracting WLL

Routers select best routes based on the criteria Longest Prefix match (Routers select the routes with longest match to the destination address), Adminstrative Distance (if a router recieves multiple routing protocols it will install the lowest distance in the table) and Metric (if the router receving the same route several times then it will check with the metric and select lowest .)

 

Elfatih Salih
by Elfatih Salih , Support and development manager , Almadina Newspaper

the route with the lowest value for cost is the main criteria for the best path. off course the OPSF will calculate that based on bandwidth

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