Fwd: RIP Timers

 Not sure why you hanging on the direct / in-direct issue where as it is not
relevant to my point and my point and the initial discussion was about
what triggers holddown timer.

As my initial claim or should I say Jeff Doyle's claim and I tend to agree:

*CCIE Professional Development Routing TCP/IP, Volume I, Second Edition
By Jeff Doyle - CCIE No. 1919, Jennifer Carroll - CCIE No. 1402*
**
"The third timer is the holddown timer, although RFC 1058 does not call for
the use of holddowns. The Cisco implementation of RIP does use them. An
update with a hop count higher than the metric recorded in the route table
will cause the route to go into holddown for 180 seconds (again, six update
periods)."

Your mistake was thinking there is one way to make a direct fail....

This discussion is like networkers street fighter :-)

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