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Routing Baisc Course

What is routing?

Types of routing

Static routing

Administrative Distance (AD)

Floating static route

Routing table components

Determine how a router makes a

forwarding decision by default

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- Floating static route use as a backup route.

- It usually has a higher AD than normal static route (AD = 1)
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Routing table Components

- Routing protocol code

- Prefix

- Network mask

- Next hop

- Administrative distance

- Metric

- Gateway of last resort

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Determine how a router makes a forwarding decision by default

Router makes a forwarding decision based on:

- Longest match

Router installs a route in the routing table based on:

- Administrative distance
- Routing protocol metric