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How To Read A Routing Table

(1) Route source - This identifies how the route was learned

(2) Destination network (prefix and prefix length) - This identifies the address of the remote network

(3) Administrative distance - This identifies the best route, Lower values indicate preferred route

(4) Metric - This identifies the cost of the route. Lower values indicate preferred routes

(5) Next-hop - This identifies the IP address of the next router to which the packet would be forwarded

(6) Route timestamp 

- This identifies the age of the Route information

(7) Exit interface - This identifies the outgoing interface