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What is used by a routing protocol to determine the best path to include in the routing table?

April 26, 2017best determine path Protocol routing Table Used

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What is used by a routing protocol to determine the best path to include in the routing table?

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It depends on the routing protocol in use, for example RIP uses the hop-count to determine the best route where less hops is better, OSPF uses cost, EIGRP uses a composite metric (BW + Delay + Reliability + Load) etc.