Reference Guide

Defaults default-metric = 10; level-1 (if not otherwise specified)
Command Modes INTERFACE
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the
relevant FTOS Command Line Reference Guide .
The following is a list of the FTOS version history for this command.
Version 8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
Version 8.3.12.0 Introduced on the S4810.
Version 8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
Version 7.5.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series.
Usage
Information
Dell Networking recommends configuring metrics on all interfaces. Without configuring this
command, the IS-IS metrics are similar to hop-count metrics.
isis metric
Assign a metric to an interface.
Z9000
Syntax
isis metric default-metric [level-1 | level-2]
To return to the default values, use the no isis metric [default-metric]
[level-1 | level-2] command.
Parameters
default-metric Metric assigned to the link and used to calculate the cost from each
other router via the links in the network to other destinations. You can
configure this metric for Level 1 or Level 2 routing. The range is from 0
to 63 for narrow and transition metric styles and from 0 to 16777215
for wide metric styles. The default is 10.
level-1 (OPTIONAL) Enter the keywords level-1 to configure the shortest
path first (SPF) calculation for Level 1 (intra-area) routing. This setting
is the default.
level-2 (OPTIONAL) Enter the keywords level-2 to configure the SPF
calculation for Level 2 (inter-area) routing.
Defaults default-metric = 10; level-1 (if not otherwise specified)
Command Modes INTERFACE
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the
relevant FTOS Command Line Reference Guide .
The following is a list of the FTOS version history for this command.
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