A company's network is experiencing suboptimal routing where traffic to a specific destination is not taking the shortest path available. The network engineer notices that multiple routes to the destination are present in the routing table, learned via the same dynamic routing protocol but have different characteristics. By default, what attribute does the router consider to choose the best path in this scenario?
The route with the most recent update time
The route with the lowest metric value
The route passing through the fewest hops
The route with the highest administrative distance
Routers use the metric assigned by the routing protocol to determine the best path. The metric reflects the cost associated with a route, which can be based on factors like bandwidth, delay, or other attributes, depending on the protocol. The route with the lowest metric value is preferred. Hop count is the metric used by RIP, not by protocols like OSPF or EIGRP. Administrative distance is used to compare routes from different routing protocols, not routes learned from the same protocol. The age of the route (most recent update) is not typically used in path selection by default.
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