Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by whitelisting our website.

You type debug ip rip on your router console and see that 172.16.10.0 is being advertised to you with a metric of 16. What does this mean?

Question: You type debug ip rip on your router console and see that 172.16.10.0 is being advertised to you with a metric of 16. What does this mean?
[A].

The route is 16 hops away.

[B].

The route has a delay of 16 microseconds.

[C].

The route is inaccessible.

[D].

The route is queued at 16 messages a second.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

You cannot have 16 hops on a RIP network by default. If you receive a route advertised with a metric of 16, this means it is inaccessible.