What is " the Best Route " ?

If a Cisco router has the following five paths available to 10.1.1.1, which would it use:

Answer : 10.1.1.0/24 , metric 44560 , EIGRP

Routing Basics

To be able to route packets, a router must know, at a minimum, the following :

- Destination Address
- Neighbor routers to all remote networks
- Possible routes to all remote networks
- The best route to each remote network
- How to maintain and vertify routing information