by default the administrative distance is one (1), but you can give it an optional value. The metric is zero (0).
Administrative distance refers to the trustworthiness of a particular route. Routes with the smallest metric to a destination indicate the best path.
They are the number of hops needed to get to the desired network. The way the network is set up, 172.17.0.0 is 1 hop away from the device that issued the DEBUG IP RIP command. and 172.18.0.0 is 2 hops.
If you mean by the words "direct route" the shortest distance between two places, distances between two places are shortest at the equator, because of the shape of the planet. If you mean which direction should be traveled to minimize distance, the route taken should be as straight a line as possible.
The distance between the above mentioned places is 7854 miles approximately. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. There might be slight difference between the actual distance and the above mentioned distance because of the route chosen.
The distance between the above places is approximately equal to 2166 nautical miles. To convert miles to nautical miles, multiply the miles by 0.86. This is point to point straight distance. The actual distance will change according to the route.
The administrative distance of a default route is typically 1. This means that it is considered the most reliable and preferred route for forwarding traffic when no other more specific route is available in the routing table.
The route via Path B is installed because the EIGRP route has the best metric to network 10.2.0.0/16. The route via Path A is installed because the static route has the best metric to network 10.2.0.0/16. The route via Path B is installed because the EIGRP route has the lowest administrative distance to network 10.2.0.0/16. The route via Path A is installed because the static route has the lowest administrative distance to network 10.2.0.0/16.
Administrative distance refers to the trustworthiness of a particular route. Routes with the smallest metric to a destination indicate the best path.
Administrative distance refers to the trustworthiness of a particular route. Routes with the smallest metric to a destination indicate the best path.
For a hop to another network that is close, if you want it to be a preferred route the cost metric must be a low number. Depending on which protocol you use for routing, this number should be lower than other numbers as alternate routes.
This is where administrative distance comes into play. The lowest one gets used in the routing table. A static route always has a lower AD than dynamic routing processes. So the static route will be used.
A Admin can set the Administrative Distance (AD) on a static route to tell the router how reliable the route is. Dynamic routing protocols use metrics to determine route reliability.
Compared to RIP, EIGRP has a lower administrative distance. Compared to EIGRP, RIP has a higher metric value for the route. Compared to RIP, the EIGRP route has fewer hops. Compared to RIP, EIGRP has a faster update timer.
The "show ip route" command in Cisco devices will display the administrative distance of routes along with other routing information.
Compared to RIP, EIGRP has a lower administrative distance.
The network as an IP address; the corresponding subnet mask (often shown in shortcut notation, e.g., /24), the next-hop address; the interface through which data must be sent to that network; how it was learned (directly connected, static configuration, or some routing protocol); the administrative distance; the cost or metric.
-Distance vector routing -Hop-count metric -Route time-out timer