[c-nsp] Ospf Metric

[Tantsura, Jeff]

Robert,

No,
If the metric is set to 0xFFFF (max-metric)
1. Routers that implement RFC1247 - links with max-metric will be simply
ignored.
2. Routers that implement RFC2328 - links with max-metric will be used if no
alternative paths exist.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: McCallum, Robert [mailto:robert.mccallum at thus.net] 
Sent: 19 April 2005 12:02
To: 'cisco-nsp'
Subject: [c-nsp] Ospf Metric

Folks,

would the following OSPF route cause any of you concern?

O       194.70.96.9
           [110/100001] via 194.70.100.13, 00:03:48, GigabitEthernet2/1/0

the metric of 100001 is my dodgy part here.  Everything seems to be ok so I
take it OSPF doesn't really care about the accumulative metric i.e. it could
be 1 or it could be 1 million - who cares.  Is this right?

Robert McCallum 
CCIE #8757 R&S + SP Written
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