From: Anthony Pace (anthonypace@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 20:30:10 GMT-3
Keep in mind that CISCO uses bandwidth as the basis for the OSPF cost.
Other vendors use different criteria.
Anthony Pace
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:20:12 -0700, "Shuyi Li" <shuli@cisco.com> said:
> 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
> >55 Clarence Street,
> >SYDNEY NSW 2000
> >AUSTRALIA
> >office: + 61 2 8264 3820
> >mobile: + 61 416 105 858
> >email: sinclairj@powertel.com.au
> >
> >-----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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