From: Dave Gingrich (Dave@xxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 16:50:43 GMT-3
At 15:33 7/27/00 -0400, Brian Hescock wrote:
>William,
> But he want's to reduce the max hop count, not increase it. Tunnels
>would allow you to increase it.
A tunnel will increase the hop count only by one. Presumably that is less
than the hop count would increase by bouncing through the network natively.
Crossing an IPX EIGRP cloud also only increases the hop by one, regardless
of how many EIGRP hops are involved. I believe (not tested yet) that NLSP
does the same thing.
As near as I can tell there is no way to actually lower the hop count.
Tunnels and non-RIP routing protocols allow you to go further in one hop,
but it is still (at least) a one hop increase when you get to the far end
and drop back into IPX RIP.
-Dave
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David C. Gingrich, K9DC
Indianapolis, Indiana
Dave@dcg.org
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