OSPF Metric - Maximum?

From: Anthony Sequeira (terry.francona@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 24 2005 - 12:28:55 GMT-3


Hi everyone.

Doing a practice lab and I am asked to set an OSPF route to its maximum
metric. I checked the ip ospf cost command and came up with a maximum metric
of 65535.

The answer key for this lab states that the maximum metric is 2^24-1 =
16,777,215 - so they set the max metric at 16,777,214.

Can anyone provide some insight on this one? Or perhaps a link to where this
is documented?

TIA



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