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What is route poisoning?(a) It sends back the protocol received from a router as a poison pill, which stops the regular updates. The use of variable length subnet masks is permitted(b) It is information received from a router that can’t be sent back to the originating router.RIPv2 supports classless routing(c) It prevents regular update messages from reinstating a route that has just come up(d) It describes when a router sets the metric for a downed link to infinityThis question was posed to me in semester exam.The doubt is from RIP v2 in portion Networking of Computer Network

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The correct option is (d) It describes when a ROUTER sets the metric for a downed LINK to infinity

Easy explanation: When a network goes down, the distance-vector routing protocol initiates ROUTE POISONING by advertising the network with a metric of 16, or unreachable.



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