The Eatery, an international food services conglomerate, wants to implement wide area network links between its 25 plants spread across 13 countries. You have been brought in as a consultant on the project. The Eatery wants convergence to be as quick as possible, and, due to slow WAN links in some undeveloped countries, it must reduce routing table updates to the absolute minimum to conserve bandwidth. Hogan's suggests using a distance-vector routing protocol because of its relative simplicity. 

 Create a network design using the distance-vector protocol you feel will meet The Eatery's needs. What metrics are used by default? Which metrics can and should be configured? Justify your answer

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Solution Designing a wide area network WAN for The Eatery using a distancevector routing protocol is a feasible approach but its essential to carefully consider the networks requirements and constrain... View the full answer