Hi Jay, In the course of reading, i stumbled upon that. All i can say is, that its not true :) "debug ip rip" will show what metric the sending-router is sending the route with. It is its own metric + 1, the receiving router puts this directly into the RIB.
Kim Jay wrote: > Hi All, > Just for clarification let me make sure I also understand. Cisco > technology handbook states "RIP uses a single routing metric (hop > count) to measure the distance between the source and a destination > network. Each hop in a path from source to destination is assigned a > hop count value, which is typically 1. When a router receives a > routing update that contains a new or changed destination network > entry, the router adds 1 to the metric value indicated in the update > and enters the network in the routing table. The IP address of the > sender is used as the next hop. " > From that it seems to me that if RIP sends from R1 with a value of > 10 , R2 places in RIB with a value of 11, and sends upstream with a > value of 11. Does that seem accurate? I misread the replies initially > and it made me want to verify my understanding of the behavior. > > Thanks, > Jay Klus > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > -- // Freedom Matters // Follow my progress on: http://kpjungle.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
