I think you need to wait as long as hold time before the worse route is 
installed in the RIB. 

Regards,
Alexander Halim

On Apr 15, 2012, at 2:17 PM, James Roc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a query regarding RIPng convergence (possibly same issue on RIPv2 as
> well). A router is receiving route1 and route2 via two separate interfaces
> and the router selects the route with the lowest metric, lets say route1.
> 
> When I increase the metric of route1 to be higher than route2, the router
> does not switch over to use route2.
> 
> It notes the worse metric in a syslog message but does not swith over to
> the better route:
> 
> *Mar  1 01:50:10.595: IPv6RT0: rip cisco275, Route add
> 2000:1:1:1100::/64 [*worse
> metric 6,* 2]
> 
> show ipv6 rip database output:
> 
> 2000:1:1:1100::/64, *metric 6, installed*
>     Serial1/0.1/FE80::2, expires in 167 secs
> 2000:1:1:1100::/64, *metric 3*
>     Tunnel1/FE80::C008:6FF:FE89:0, expires in 169 secs
> 
> The only way I can get it to switch over is to clear the route table.
> 
> On the flip side, if I modify the metric of the worse route to be the best,
> then the routing table flips over automatically.
> 
> So it looks when the metric of an installed route is increased, there is no
> preemptive switch.
> 
> However, when the metric of a worse route is decreased to be the best, then
> the routing table is updated with the new route.
> 
> Is this the expected operation of RIP?
> 
> Cheers
> James
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