From: Mark Lewis (mark@mjlnet.com)
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 10:34:55 GMT-3
By the way, the title for the article mentioned should, of course, be
'Troubleshooting Multiprotocol Label Switching Layer-3 VPNs' not
'Troubleshooting Any Transport over MPLS Based VPNs'. I have asked Cisco Press
to correct it, but..... :)
Regards,
Mark
>From: "Christian Sica" <csica@liweb.net>
>Reply-To: "Christian Sica" <csica@liweb.net>
>To: "'Bob Sinclair'" <bob@bobsinclair.net>, "'Curt Girardin'"
><curt.girardin@chicos.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: RE: Metric transparent ??
>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:28:01 -0500
>
>Hi Curt,
>
>The metric transparent command is used to redistribute MPBGP routes into
>RIP. This is usefull when using RIP as the PE-CE routing protocol for a
>VPN. Routes learned via RIP are redistributed into the MPBGP
>address-family
>and the metric for each RIP route is translated to the BGP MED value. At
>the far end, the MPBGP routes are redistibuted back into RIP and with the
>"metric transparent" commmand, the MED value is translated back into the
>RIP
>metric.
>
>Here is more info:
>http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=391649&seqNum=2&rl=1
>
>HTH,
>Christian
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Bob
>Sinclair
>Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:58 PM
>To: Curt Girardin; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Metric transparent ??
>
>Curt,
>
>Lots of these "mystery commands" relate to MPLS. Here is a quote from
>MPLS
>and VPN Architectures :
>
> metric transparent. This command causes RIP to use the routing table
>metric
>for redistributed routes as the RIP metric, with the original metric being
>carried across the MPLS/VPN backbone in the BGP MED value.
>
>HTH,
>
>Bob Sinclair
>CCIE #10427, CCSI 30427
>www.netmasterclass.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Curt Girardin
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:45 AM
> Subject: Metric transparent ??
>
>
> Team,
>
> I noticed a new keyword that I haven't seen before today. I only seem
> to see it under the rip routing process when redistributing. It is
> "metric transparent" at the end of a redistribute statement under rip.
> For example:
>
> R2#
> R2#config t
> Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
> R2(config)#router rip
> R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 10 metric ?
> <0-16> Default metric
> transparent Transparently redistribute metric
>
> This was done on a 3640, using IOS 12.4(5) (c3640-jk9o3s-mz.124-5.bin)
>
> Does anyone know what this keyword does, how it works, and/or have any
> links to the documentation on this keyword. I've checked the docCD
> under IOS 12.4 and didn't see anything under rip, nor under the master
> command list. Searching for "metric transparent" only shows me links to
> MPLS-related topics.
>
> If anyone can help me understand what this keyword does, I'd really
> appreciate it.
>
> TIA,
>
> Curt
>
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