Question 202 pts

Question

What is used to rate the trustworthiness of routing information on a router received from a neighbor router?
Group of answer choices

Autonomous system

link state

Hop count

Administrative distance (AD)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Administrative distance (AD).

Administrative distance is used by routers to rate the trustworthiness of routing information from different sources. Each routing protocol has a default administrative distance value, and the router will prefer routes with the lowest AD when making routing decisions.