From: Kevin Baumgartner (kbaumgar@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 23:28:33 GMT-3
Yes you are right and a metric of 1 would be more reasonable.
I believe there are other routing protocols other than RIP than
also need a default metric when redistributing. For example IGRP.
Kevin
>
> Actually, OSPF has a default metric (20). Unless prohibited, I prefer
> to use a metric type of 1 so the cost changes as it traverses the
> network. With RIP you have to either specify a default metric, or
> redistribute it with a metric. Be careful. Mae it a slow as possible
> as a metric of 16 is unreachable.
>
> Kevin Baumgartner wrote:
> >
> > Yes in your example you don't need the metric. But I always do this
> > as it's a good practice to get into especially when you distributing
> > another routing protocol (RIP, EIGRP, BGP) into OSPF. If you don't have
> > this metric or a default metric defined you may not get any redistributed
> > routes.
> >
> > And no I didn't look at Cisco's home page :)
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > >
>
>
>
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