Preferred Route

[Shanmuga Sundaram]

Hi Everyone,

Can someone explain in brief which Route is most preferred route ?

1) Directly Connected Route
2) Static Route
3) Dynamic Route

Regards,
Shanmuga Sundaram

[paul driver]

Hello

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@Shanmuga Sundaram wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Can someone explain in brief which Route is most preferred route ?

1) Directly Connected Route  - a prefix- network that is actually applied  to an interface on the rtr-switch

2) Static Route  - a manually entry of a route on the rtr-switch so it. can forward traffic for a certain network

 
3) Dynamic Route - a route learned by the rtr - switch from a routing protocol

Regards,
Shanmuga Sundaram

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[paul driver]

Hello

Apologies I didn't fully answer you query -  _ I see Julio as replied the answer you requested.

res

Paul

[Julio E. Moisa · Accepted solution]

Hi

The preferred route will be always the directly connected route (under the local interfaces). Because it is considered as administrative distance zero, now a static route (by default) has administrative distance of 1 and the dynamic routing protocols has different administrative distance than 1. 

A router will always prefer the directly connected networks first over other same routes. The following link can be useful:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/enhanced-interior-gateway-routing-protocol-eigrp/8651-21.html

:-)