From: Paresh Khatri (Paresh.Khatri@aapt.com.au)
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 20:40:57 GMT-3
Howdy,
When using wide metrics, ISIS uses TLV 135 (as per RFC3784). This new TLV subsumes both TLV128 and TLV130 and has no provision to treat routes as external. Therefore, when you use wide metrics, it is not possible to distinguish between internal and external routes.
HTH,
Paresh.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
gladston@br.ibm.com
Sent: Wednesday, 01 June 2005 09:32 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: ISIS - Redistribute metric-type external
When redistributing ospf into isis, if it is used metric-type external, metric changes from 0 to 64.
If wide-style is used, metric goes back to 0.
Is it as it was supposed to be?
Troubleshooting Routing Protocols book says:
"Cisco IOS Software sets bit 8 instead of bit 7 for the I/E bit when using narrow metrics, which results in an increase in the metric value by 128 instead of 64."
I was expecting 128 instead of 0.
It is a simple network:
R5-----R8
Just level-2 adjacency.
R5 and R8 have the command metric-style wide
r8#sh isis dat det r5.00-00 l2
IS-IS Level-2 LSP r5.00-00
LSPID LSP Seq Num LSP Checksum LSP Holdtime ATT/P/OL
r5.00-00 0x00000005 0x65CD 1193 0/0/0
Area Address: 49.0005
NLPID: 0xCC
Hostname: r5
IP Address: 172.16.57.5
Metric: 10 IS r5.01
Metric: 64 IP-External 100.111.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 100.117.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 100.113.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 100.115.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.200.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 10 IP 172.16.57.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.48.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.44.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.24.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.18.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.8.1 255.255.255.255
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.5.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.4.1 255.255.255.255
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.7.1 255.255.255.255
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.7.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.0.0 255.255.224.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.2.1 255.255.255.255
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.77.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 172.16.66.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.17.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.19.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.18.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.21.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.20.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.23.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.22.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.25.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.24.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.27.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.26.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.29.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.28.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.31.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 210.30.1.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 150.100.3.0 255.255.255.0
Metric: 64 IP-External 150.100.1.0 255.255.255.0
r8(config)#router isis
r8(config-router)#metric-style wide
r8#sh isis dat det r5.00-00 l2
IS-IS Level-2 LSP r5.00-00
LSPID LSP Seq Num LSP Checksum LSP Holdtime ATT/P/OL
r5.00-00 0x00000006 0xBB79 1192 0/0/0
Area Address: 49.0005
NLPID: 0xCC
Hostname: r5
IP Address: 172.16.57.5
Metric: 10 IS-Extended r5.01
Metric: 0 IP 100.111.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 100.117.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 100.113.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 100.115.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.200.0/24
Metric: 10 IP 172.16.57.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.48.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.44.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.24.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.18.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.8.1/32
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.5.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.4.1/32
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.7.1/32
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.7.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.0.0/19
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.2.1/32
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.77.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 172.16.66.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.17.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.16.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.19.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.18.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.21.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.20.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.23.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.22.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.25.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.24.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.27.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.26.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.29.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.28.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.31.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 210.30.1.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 150.100.3.0/24
Metric: 0 IP 150.100.1.0/24
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