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Re: metric 0 vs 'no metric at all'
- From: Pierfrancesco Caci
- Date: Tue Jan 03 03:10:15 2006
:-> "Alexander" == Alexander Koch <efraim@clues.de> 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 metric of 0 and no metric. I am not
> an expert knowing the actual protocol's messages exchanged,
> but I see some routes with nothing in the metric field on
> the various show commands, and some have explicit '0' metric.
> I do not trust all the BGP implementations around, and we
> consider changing the default outbound, with MEDs of course
> still available on request.
Cisco has a knob for this:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123tcr/123tip2r/ip2_b1gt.htm#wp1076618
default is treating missing med as 0, which tends to surprise peers/customers
who want to send med only on a few routes (i.e., if you want to set a
med on a route, always set it on all your bgp sessions, because you
can't tell if your neighbor has set "missing-as-worst" or not).
Pf
> Alexander
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