From: Joe Martin (jmartin@capitalpremium.net)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 17:45:44 GMT-3
Danny,
By default the K values for reliability, load, MTU are set to 0, so the
metric is really only based on BW and Delay.
But, no, it does not use delay as a tie breaker, etc. EIGRP uses a compound
metric built on each of those 5 "sub-metrics". Both BW and Delay are used
to calculate the metric. (the other sub-metrics are also used if the
K-values are changed.)
However, if two routes have the same BW but one has a lower delay, then a
lower (better) metric would be calculated for that route, so there is some
dependency there, but it is not a tie-breaker.
Hope that wasn't too confusing, I'm not very articulate.
HTH,
Joe Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Danny.Andaluz@triaton-na.com
Sent: May 28, 2003 12:41 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: EIGRP metric (just to be sure)
Hello, Group. Is the below correct with regards to how eigrp picks a best
route? Does it do it like the below or does each value get taken into
account for the composite metric?
BW
Delay (in case of tie with BW) ?
relia (in case of tie with delay) ?
load (in case of tie with relia) ?
MTU (in case of tie with load) ?
Thanks,
Danny
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