Receiving route with metric 0

Mon Dec 5 14:24:07 UTC 2005

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 at gmail.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog at 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