Equal-Cost Multipath — Cisco CCNA (200-301) Practice Questions

Equal-cost multipath (ECMP) is a routing strategy in which a router installs multiple routes to the same destination in the routing table when those routes have identical metrics, distributing traffic across all available paths. The CCNA 200-301 exam tests how protocols like OSPF and EIGRP handle ECMP, as well as how Cisco IOS performs per-destination or per-packet load sharing across equal-cost routes. Understanding ECMP is important for designing resilient networks and for interpreting routing table output that shows multiple next-hop entries for a single prefix.

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