I just moved from the RIP chapter to EIGRP in the course and I'm a bit confused. RIP was simple — count the hops, lowest wins, max 15. But EIGRP apparently uses this composite metric with bandwidth and delay (and load/reliability?) and I don't really get why it's more complicated.
What problem does bandwidth + delay actually solve that hop count doesn't? And when EIGRP picks a path, which one "wins" — the fewest hops or something else? Trying to build the right mental model before I do the lab. 🙂
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