[c-nsp] ospf cost

[Tantsura, Jeff]

Jon,

auto-cost reference-bandwidth should be adjusted on all OSPF routers.
I did it few years ago once (from default to 10000) without any problem.

Jeff

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jon Lewis
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:28 PM
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Subject: [c-nsp] ospf cost

I've run into an odd situation with a few routers that both talk to
multiple ethernet networks, all doing OSPF.  The routers have GigE to
one
network, FE to another, and then a PTP GigE connecting them.  For
talking
to each other, these two routers seem to be treating all 3 paths as
equal
even though they're obviously not.  The whole point behind the PTP GigE
connection was to give each a more efficient/less congested path to the
other.

I think what I've run into is a limitation in the default ospf cost
calculation which causes any interface with BW >= 100mbit to end
up with a cost of 1.  I see I can raise that with something like:

router ospf 1
 auto-cost reference-bandwidth 10000

but that causes a warning telling me I better make sure all my routers
have the same reference-bandwidth setting.  I assume that's so other
routers don't end up with whacked out SP trees based on wildly different
interface costs across the network.

If anyone's already changed this, was it the sort of thing you rolled
out
across the whole network as quickly as possible during a late night
maintenance window?

Is it better to just manually alter a few carefully chosen interface
costs?

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