[c-nsp] Ospf Metric

[Piotr Marecki]

> 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

Imho it shall only care when metric contained within LSA3/5/7 is LSInfinity
(0xFFFFFF) , or , in case of
ABR summary LSA origination , if cumulative metric is equeal or greater than
LSInfinity.

regards

Piotr Marecki