From: dhbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 19:12:16 GMT-3
On the contrary, a tunnel is the correct solution. Consider:
R1 - R2 - R3 - R4 - R5 - R6
The hop count from R1 to R6 would be 5. If you had a tunnel from R1 to R6, tha
t would be 1 hop...
David
(RTP Lab 8/6)
Brian Hescock <bhescock@cisco.com> wrote:
> 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 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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