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Re: Receiving route with metric 0

  • From: Tony Varriale
  • Date: Mon Dec 05 09:22:04 2005


RIP metric of 0 means it's a directly connected route. Valid metrics are 1 - 15, with 16 used as "dead".

TV
----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Kent" <[email protected]>
To: "NANOG list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:09 AM
Subject: Receiving route with metric 0



Nanogers,

We are running RIP on one of our small cutomer routers and we are
receiving routes with RIP metric 0. Is this valid? I thought each RIP
router sends a metric of atleast 1, which is also what the RIP RFC
seems to suggest.

Has anyone ever come across such a scenario, i.e seeing RIP routes
with metric 0?

Thanks,
Kent