Hi guys, (and gals, oh! and Chuck)
I don't know why, but I thought I'd share how I remember [E]IGRP metrics.
[E]IGRP metrics cause nightmares. So all you get from them is a "BaD Load
of ReM".
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Rodgers Moore
""Chuck Larrieu"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Priscilla, off line I got a reply that show ip protocol reports that the K
> values are what one would expect, even with the settings what they are. In
> other words, according to the original poster, he looked and saw K1 and K3
=
> 1 and K2,4,and 5 =0
>
> I'm curious myself, now. I can't research it right now, but somewhere I
have
> this idea that the metrics are not effected by the redistribute route
metric
> command. Changes in metric values have to be done another way.
>
> Bandwidth delay load reliability MTU. Gotta remember that. And yes I see
> that in one of the tables that 255 is 100% reliable. Again, it appears
from
> what Jim said that these values make no difference in the metric as
reported
> in the show ip protocol output.
>
> In his book Advanced IP routing in Cisco Networks, Slattery uses many
> examples of the redistribution metric. In each case it appears that he
tries
> to match the bandwidth, but uses values of 100, 255,1 and 1500 for all
other
> places
>
> I should have a bit of time tonight, and I will set up a quick&dirty lab
and
> experiment.
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: Chuck Larrieu; Cisco Mail List; James Haynes
> Subject: RE: Redistribution
>
> At 10:14 AM 11/22/00, Chuck Larrieu wrote:
> >Probably the person who did it originally did not understand how the
> metrics
> >should be set up.
> >
> >Reliability goes low to high. Lower is more reliable.
>
> You meant to say load, didn't you?
>
> 255 load means a fully-loaded network, which is generally a bad thing. A
> low load is good.
>
> 255 reliability means 100% reliability, which is a good thing. A low
> reliability value is bad.
>
> But when redistributing, I could see setting load high to make the
> redistributed route less favorable. What's a bit confusing is that they
> didn't set the reliability low, which would have been logical. So your
> guess that they were confused seems likely!
>
> If my brain is addled by PPP (Pumpkin Pie Preparation), forgive me. Gotta
> get back to it now.
>
> Priscilla
>
>
>
> >Do a show ip protocol and look at the K values that are reported. I'm
> >curious as to what they might show.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> >James Haynes
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:34 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Redistribution
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I recently took a job at a new company and one of the first tasks I've
been
> >given is to go over the configuration and documentation of one of the
WANs.
> >While going thru the router config's I have found some redistribution
> >commands that are, to me, not making sense. They are:
> >
> >router eigrp 113
> > redistribute static metric 1544 100 255 255 1500
> > redistribute rip metric 1544 100 255 255 1500 route-map rip-to-eigrp
> >
> >
> >Now, these are not difficult commands in and of themselves and are
readily
> >understandable. The thing that has me puzzeled is the value of the metric
> >for Load. Here the values for load are equal to 255. This to my
> >understanding represents a fully loaded route. Am I correct? If so, why
> >would one want to do that? If I'm not correct what is the correct
> >interpretation of the above values.
> >
> >
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