[87139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Receiving route with metric 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Mon Dec 5 21:43:00 2005
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:12:13 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: Tony Varriale <tvarriale@comcast.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <003c01c5f9a7$8d764440$6611a8c0@joeblow>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I am a little confused here. You yourself say that a valid metric
starts from 1, then how come 0 be valid for a directly connected
route. Are you saying that seeing a RIP metric of 0 on the wire is
valid?
On 12/5/05, Tony Varriale <tvarriale@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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" <glen.kent@gmail.com>
> To: "NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu>
> 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
>
>
>
