What is a metric?

Answer Posted / surjeet gimit

Any value that is use by routing Algorithm to determine
whether one route is superior to another.
Meetric Includes such information as bandwidth, delay, hop
counts, path, reliability and communication cost.

Only the best route are store in routing table, while other
information may be stored in link state or topology
database.

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