Avalue is typically assigned to a route that identifies the distance or cost to the destination network. the value is used by the routing protocol to identify and select the best route to the destination when multiple routes exist. a lower metric identifies a more preferred route. one of the values that can be used to calculate the route value is the which is the number of routers between the current router and the destination network.

One of the values that can be used to calculate the route value is the metrics which is the number of routers between the current router and the destination network.

Explanation:

Metrics calculates the “cost value” which is used by “routers” to find the “best path” to reach the “destination network”. The factors which are helpful to the dynamic protocol to find the “shortest path” is called the Metrics. Metrics are basically “network variable”.

Static route path finder cannot be changed but a dynamic can be changed and sometimes the metric values will be assigned by the “System Admin”. The router metric contains information about the “hop, latency, path bandwidth, etc”.