From: Shuyi Li (shuli@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 15:20:12 GMT-3
Jason,
Regarding the OSPF metric, I have a question for you that, the cost of
links is considered to be the current available BW, or just the total BW
even it's being occupied, say 50%. Please advise.
thanks in advance.
/shuyi
At 05:22 PM 7/17/2002 +1000, Jason Sinclair wrote:
>Tom,
>
>In OSPF the metric is the cost. What I mean here is best clarified as
>follows:
>
>1. In RIP the metric as we know is hop count.
>2. EIGRP/IGRP use a composite metric based on things such as bandwidth,
>delay, etc
>3. In OSPF the metric is based on the cost of links. The lower the cost the
>more preferred the path
>
>Hope this makes sense.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jason Sinclair CCIE #9100
>Manager, Network Control Centre
>POWERTEL
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Young [mailto:gitsyoung@yahoo.co.jp]
>Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2002 16:35
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: OSPF 's cost and metric
>
>Hi, group.
>
> The OSPF's "cost" and "metric" parameters made me
>confused. Who can clear it for me?
>
>
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