• Route Precedence: How a router chooses its prefers path. It is accomplished by comparing 3 attributes in order:
  • 1. Route Specificity - the most specific route
  • 2. Administrative Distance
  • 3. Metric / Cost
  • 1. Load Balancing
• Specificity:
  • This refers to how close to the destination the route may be.
  • The chosen route will follow the one that directs closest to the target host
    • If there is a host in a subnet and the roue points to the subnet, then it will chose the route within the subnet. There may be a route to a bigger portion or scope of the network and it may route your data correctly but it is not as specific as the route into the subnet,