Am all the more confused now :) > > > > In pre-RFC1058 implementations the sender increments the metric, so a > > directly-connected route's metric is 1 on the wire. > > > > In post-RFC1058 implementations the receiver increments the metric, so > > a directly-connected route's metric is 0 on the wire. > > > > In both cases, the metric in a reciever's database one hop away is 1.
Lets say we have A -- B. A is pre-RFC1058 and B is post RFC 1058. A sends a directly connected route as 1. B increments this by 1, and thus stores it as 2. > > You appear to have it backwards. As it says in the section you quoted, > > "These two viewpoints result in identical update messages being > sent." > > Either approach results in messages with metric 1. The metrics on the Hmmm .. not sure. A post 1058 implementation would send a metric 0 for a directly connected route, assuming that the other end would increment the value and things would work out fine. Thanks, Glen