Re: Offset List vs Distribute List

Absolutely.

A distribute list is on or off as to whether or not it gets sent out.

An offset list can control how many hops away it stops being passed on when it reaches Infinity.

HTH.

Regards,
Jay McMickle CCIE #35355
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On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Rakesh M <raaki.88_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In a RIPV2 filtering task, a certain prefix was not supposed to be
> advertised to a peer. I used Distribute list while the solution used by the
> vendor was offset-list with metric out as 14. Though both of them would
> still work, is there any technical advantage of having one over the other,
> if asked in lab about filtering which method should be used.
>
> Thanks
>
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