What is a metric?

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What is a metric?..

Answer / surjeet gimit

Any value that is use by routing Algorithm to determine
whether one route is superior to another.
Meetric Includes such information as bandwidth, delay, hop
counts, path, reliability and communication cost.

Only the best route are store in routing table, while other
information may be stored in link state or topology
database.

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What is a metric?..

Answer / joe

METRIC IS THE DISTANCE TO THE REMOTE NETWORK.RIP CONSIDER
HOP COUNT AS METRIC AND OSPF CONSIDER COST
(100000000/BANDWIDTH).

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What is a metric?..

Answer / prasanta ku. meher

Metric is the a numerical identity which use protocols to
find out best path. It contains the information of
bandwidth, delay, hop count.

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What is a metric?..

Answer / arun

When broadcasting the information from the local routing
table, gated computes the length of the route from the
so-called metric value.

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What is a metric?..

Answer / suresh

Metric is used to find the Best path in routing protcols.

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