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Which value represents the "trustworthiness" of a route and is used to determine which route to install into the routing table when there are multiple routes toward the same destination? routing protocol outgoing interface metric administrative distance

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The 'Administrative Distance' is the value that signifies the trustworthiness of a route and is used by routers to select the best route for the routing table among multiple options.

Step-by-step explanation:

The value that represents the "trustworthiness" of a route and is used to determine which route to install into the routing table when there are multiple routes toward the same destination is known as the Administrative Distance (AD). The Administrative Distance is a metric used by routers to choose the best path when there are two or more different routes to the same destination from two different routing protocols. If two routes have the same AD, the router will then use the metric value to decide which route is best. The metric is calculated by the routing protocol and can include factors such as hop count, bandwidth, delay, load, reliability, cost, etc. However, the AD is considered before the metric.

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