N10-005 · Question #826
An advertised route learned from one protocol over a different protocol is called:
The correct answer is D. Redistribution. Route redistribution is the process of importing routes learned by one routing protocol into another routing protocol's routing table. This allows different routing domains to share reachability information.
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An advertised route learned from one protocol over a different protocol is called:
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- ACo-location
- BReallocation
- CRedundancy
- DRedistribution
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(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B6% (2)
- D91% (31)
Why each option
Route redistribution is the process of importing routes learned by one routing protocol into another routing protocol's routing table. This allows different routing domains to share reachability information.
Co-location refers to housing an organization's servers in a third-party data center facility; it has no relation to routing protocol route exchange.
Reallocation is a general term for reassigning resources or addressing blocks and is not a defined networking or routing protocol concept.
Redundancy describes having duplicate systems or paths to ensure availability during failures; it does not describe the process of sharing routes between different routing protocols.
Redistribution takes routes advertised by one routing protocol (for example, OSPF routes) and injects them into a different routing protocol (for example, BGP or EIGRP) so that the receiving protocol can propagate those routes to its own peers. It is a fundamental technique for interconnecting networks that run different routing protocols or belong to different administrative domains.
Concept tested: Route redistribution between routing protocols
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/enhanced-interior-gateway-routing-protocol-eigrp/8606-redist-conn.html
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