Showing posts with label Adminstrative Distance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adminstrative Distance. Show all posts

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Difference Between Reported Distance and Administrative Distance

Reported Distance is the distance (metric) towards a destination as advertised by an upstream neighbour. Reported distance is the distance reported in the queries, the replies and the updates.
Reported Distance → The total path between a router and the next closest router.

Admistrative Distance is a measure of the trustworthiness of the source of the routing information.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Difference between Metric and Administrative Distance ?

Administrative Distance determines what priority will be given to each Routing protocol redirected through a router.
Metric is a Calculation done by the Routing protocol to determine the best path through a network.