[j-nsp] MTU question.. n00b

Alex Rubenstein alex at nac.net
Mon Nov 28 09:15:13 EST 2005


Call me crazy, (realising this is not Juniperish), I believe EIGRP keeps 
track of "minimum MTU in path".

And, sometimes ISIS won't come up in case of MTU mismatch.



On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Niels Bakker wrote:

> * junipertech at gmail.com (josh) [Sun 27 Nov 2005, 13:30 CET]:
>> i am wondering does changing the MTU affect routing protocol metric or
>> its not part of the metric calculation ?
>
> Not in any IGP that I'm aware of.
>
> Be careful when changing it, though, OSPF won't form adjacencies in the
> case of an MTU mismatch between peers.
>
>
> 	-- Niels.
>
>

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