What is Route Poisoning?



What is Route Poisoning?..

Answer / Dhawal Goyal

Route poisoning is a routing protocol mechanism used to rapidly spread information about a failed or unreachable network. It does this by setting the metric of the failed route to infinity, causing other routers to remove the route from their routing tables.

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