In a computer network, the transmission of data is based on the routing protocol which selects the best routes between any two nodes. Different types of routing protocols are applied to specific ...

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Equal-cost multi-path allows a router to insert more than one path to a destination in the routing table to enable load balancing. Here's how ECMP works and how to configure it in OSPF. Equal-cost ...