Hi Solomon, The receiving router uses the metric it hears from its neighbor. It increments upon sending it out.
-hth On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Solomon Ayele <[email protected]> wrote: > Dears, > I have a question. When RIP updates are sent from one router and received > by the other what does the receiving router do to the advertised metric? > does it increment by 1 or does the advertising router send an update with > metric + 1 value? My expectation was the receiving router is the one that > does the increment. > > This question came as I have redistributed a loopback interface to RIP with > metric of 10 and on the neighboring router I saw it as having metric of 10. > > Best Regards > Solomon > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > -- Bryan Bartik CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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