From: Bit Gossip (bit.gossip@chello.nl)
Date: Sat Nov 22 2008 - 08:55:25 ARST
After almost 2 years I found an answer :-) from Routing TCP/IP vol I pag
367: "A delay of 0xFFFFFFFF indicates an unreachable route."
Bit RS18812
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:33 +0100, Bit Gossip wrote:
> Group,
> the reason why I was trying to increase the hop-count of specific
> prefixes was that I was trying to stop the router advertising them
> without using any filter list: this was the request. So i thought to set
> the hop-count to max which means unreachable.
> I don't know if it is possible to do the same with the EIGRP compound
> metric; I tried to set the metric to the max possible value but still
> those prefixes were advertised. So I guess that EIGRP has not such a
> thing as unreachable metric value
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 09:07 -0500, Scott Morris wrote:
> > It is just used to set up a larger limit on routes. That's it. It's just a
> > small check to make sure your network isn't TOO big. :)
> >
> >
> > Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
> > #153, CISSP, et al.
> > CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
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> > IPexpert Sr. Technical Instructor
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> > http://www.ipexpert.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Xiangling
> > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:51 AM
> > To: Bit Gossip
> > Cc: groupstudy'
> > Subject: Re: EIGRP hop count
> >
> > Sorry but the point is why you need to manipulate it? EIGRP does not take
> > into route selection or unreachability judgement, nor does it take hop count
> > as other kind of reference. So why bother? If you die hard want it you can
> > set your bandwidth to a unique value to all participating interface, and set
> > an appropriate K value to make your metric to 1 for each hop. Then you can
> > use offset-list to change it as you want. But... anyway, if you die hard
> > want it why not use RIP?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xiangling
> >
> >
> > On 1/7/07, Bit Gossip <bit.gossip@chello.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry Scott,
> > > but what you are pointing out is 'metric maximum-hops' which dosn't
> > > manipulate the hop-count of a route!
> > > The reason why I am asking the group 'how to manipulate the eigrp
> > > hop-count' is that I couldn't find any hint on the DocCD!
> > > Thanks,
> > > Luca
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:09 -0500, Scott Morris wrote:
> > > > I'd probably look on the DocCD under the Command Reference...
> > > > Perhaps
> > > going
> > > > to the IP Routing Protocols section and looking at EIGRP Commands.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps a Ctrl-F for "hop" or "hop count" would help things out
> > > there? :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios124/124cr/
> > > hirp_r
> > > > /rte_eih.htm#wp1000064
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes it good to figure out what keywords are important to help
> > > > you search for things. Nobody will ever memorize all of the
> > > > commands. Even after all these years, I still look things up (most
> > > > likely 'cause I
> > > killed
> > > > too many brain cells at an earlier age, but that's a different story!
> > > > (grin))
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713,
> > > JNCIE
> > > > #153, CISSP, et al.
> > > > CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
> > > > IPexpert VP - Curriculum Development IPexpert Sr. Technical
> > > > Instructor smorris@ipexpert.com http://www.ipexpert.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> > > > Of
> > > Bit
> > > > Gossip
> > > > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:39 AM
> > > > To: groupstudy
> > > > Subject: EIGRP hop count
> > > >
> > > > Hi group,
> > > > is there any way to manipulate hop count in eigrp?
> > > > I noticed that offset-list manipulates the composite metric but NOT
> > > > hop-count!
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Luca
> > > >
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