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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[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 > > >
