RE: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'

2006-02-17 Thread Doug Marschke
And just to update, those drafts have made it into RFC 4271 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4271.txt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny McPherson Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: metric 0 vs

Re: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'

2006-01-03 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:21:43AM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote: I was wondering if someone had done any or some research on this before... Yup, when troubleshooting the ERXes former wrong handling of no MED. :-) basically I am not sure with all the many implementations of BGP and all the

Re: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'

2006-01-03 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Alexander == Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hiya, I was wondering if someone had done any or some research on this before... basically I am not sure with all the many implementations of BGP and all the vendors if and what those will do when they see a

Re: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'

2006-01-03 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 3, 2006, at 1:03 AM, Daniel Roesen wrote: So the spec is fuzzy about how no MED vs. MED=0 should be treated, but vendors seem to largely agree to no MED == MED 0. I know of no deviation, except the old ERX bug which got fixed (ERX treated no MED as best, even better than MED=0 -

Re: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'

2006-01-03 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Alexander Koch wrote: I was wondering if someone had done any or some research on this before... basically I am not sure with all the many implementations of BGP and all the vendors if and what those will do when they see a metric of 0 and no metric. I am not an expert