Re: Changing IPX RIP Hop Count

From: Brian Hescock (bhescock@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 16:33:27 GMT-3


   
William,
  But he want's to reduce the max hop count, not increase it. Tunnels
would allow you to increase it.

B.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, William Swedberg wrote:

> Remember this concept....
>
> "tunnel"
>
>
> William Swedberg CCNP CCDP
>
>
> --- Dave Gingrich <Dave@dcg.org> wrote:
> > At 09:30 7/27/00 -0400, Brian Hescock wrote:
> > >You should be able to set the metric when you
> > redistribute or set the
> > >default metric when you redistribute. You could
> > say the metric is 5 so
> > >then the max hop count from that point would be 10.
> > Another option may be
> > >to use a route-map to change the metric.
> >
> > Unfortunately niether of those are available with
> > IPX. The metric used to
> > choose a path is a delay value measured in "ticks."
> > You can fiddle with
> > that a bit, but if the hop count is over 15, you are
> > done as far as IPX RIP
> > is concerned.
> >
> >
> > =========================
> > David C. Gingrich, K9DC
> > Indianapolis, Indiana
> > Dave@dcg.org
> > =========================
> >
> >



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