Need help in understanding how summarization concept applies here.
Right now, packets are taking paths from both R3 and R4 as both have equal metric to reach R5.
How can summarization affect what path the packets take ? Is metric affected due to summarization?
Task 4: Path Selection using Route - Summarization
R1 and R2 should take path via R4 to reach the loopbacks of R5
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Hi
As you mentioned here that packets are taking path from both R3 and R4 because of same metric . The reason here is that the whenever a cisco router forward traffic it will match the destination ip address in routing table and in which longest prefix match , it will send packet by that path . In this task , R1 and R2 receive R5 loopback on /24 from both R3 and R4 , so whenever they will generate packet , the router will send the packet by both of the routers because both of the path are available in routing table with same AD , METRIC and PREFIX-LENGTH .
How can summarization affect what path the packets take ?
Yes Summarization can effect that what path will be taken by R1 and R2 to reach loopback of R5 . In this scenario , both R3 and R4 are advertising R5 routes on /24 with the same metric . But if we will send the summary of R5 loopback from R3 than the path is taken by R4 , because R4 will advertise individual routes to R1 and R2 . So longest-prefix will be match in R4 advertised routes .
Is metric affected due to summarization ?
There is a simple rule in summarization that whenever a router will generate summary route , than it will advetise metric of a prefix which one have lowest metric . But in this task , on R3 every loopback of R5 have same metric .
To perform this task , you can send summary of R5 loopback from R3 and R4 will advertise individual routes on /24 , so R1 and R2 prefer path by R4 because of longest-prefix match .
Hope it will helpful for you .
Thanks
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