L3 question concerning 3560 switch 1

[blade10]

All-

can you in fact setup metric priorities on default or static routes..

i.e, ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.x.x 1 <--- metric one

and then set up a second route using a 2 at the end of it making it a 2nd in priority?

just curious if metric priorities work this way..

thanks

blade

 

[unclerico]

yes you can and yes they do. are you asking for a specific application or are you just curious?

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[ADB100]

What you are talking about is 'administrative distances' and NOT metrics - they are different things.

Administrative distances are a 'believability' factor of a routing protocol (in your case a static route) when the route exists in multiple routing tables (OSPF, RIP, static etc). Metrics are routing protocol specific and are calculated by the routing process to determine which next-hop to forward traffic to.

For example if a router is running both RIP & OSPF and is learning the same prefix under both RIP & OSPF, then regardless of the metric of each route the OSPF one will be added to the routing table since OSPFs admin distance is 110 (RIP being less preferable at 120).

HTH

Andy

 

[burtsbees]

The example blade10 has posted is called a floating static route. If link a goes down, then link b will take over.
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.5.2 50
There is no need to put an AD on the end of the preferred route, since static routes have a default of 1, and directly connected routes have a default of 0.

Burt

 

[blade10]

All-

Although everyone here gave great examples of specific elements and I commend you all... however, burtbees had was I was looking for exactly.
The floating static route! So I suppose this does hold true for a switch that can route.

Thanks again to all

blade

 

[unclerico]

Star for Burt then??

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[burtsbees]

Thanks unclerico!

Burt

 

[unclerico]

no prob mayn ;-)

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