I am a little confused here. You yourself say that a valid metric starts from 1, then how come 0 be valid for a directly connected route. Are you saying that seeing a RIP metric of 0 on the wire is valid? On 12/5/05, Tony Varriale <tvarriale@comcast.net> wrote:
RIP metric of 0 means it's a directly connected route. Valid metrics are 1 - 15, with 16 used as "dead".
TV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Kent" <glen.kent@gmail.com> To: "NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:09 AM Subject: Receiving route with metric 0
Nanogers,
We are running RIP on one of our small cutomer routers and we are receiving routes with RIP metric 0. Is this valid? I thought each RIP router sends a metric of atleast 1, which is also what the RIP RFC seems to suggest.
Has anyone ever come across such a scenario, i.e seeing RIP routes with metric 0?
Thanks, Kent