On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> > So what your telling me that the Cost is the same as the Metric? Cost, is it
> >what the link is ( like Ethernet would be a 10? and a 56K circuit would be
> >say 1000 ) and a metric would be the cost added upto the destination? or the
> best route to take.
>
> The metric varies with the interior routing protocol, but it is
> generally the way the router sees the sum of per-interface "values".
> BGP does not have a strong concept of metrics.
>
> Protocol AD Per-interface value Metric
> -------------------------------------------------------
> RIP 120 hop sum of hops
> OSPF 100 cost sum of costs
> (special costs for inter-area & external)
OSPF has an AD of 110, not 100.
Brian
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