Command Line Reference Guide

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) | 807
Usage
Information
Dell Force10 recommends configuring metrics on all interfaces. Without configuring this command,
the IS-IS metrics are similar to hop-count metrics.
isis metric
e
Assign a metric to an interface.
Syntax
isis metric default-metric [level-1 | level-2]
To return to the default values, enter no isis metric [default-metric] [level-1 | level-2].
Parameters
Defaults
default-metric = 10; level-1 (if not otherwise specified)
Command Modes
INTERFACE
Usage
Information
Dell Force10 recommends configuring metrics on all interfaces. Without configuring this command,
the IS-IS metrics are similar to hop-count metrics.
isis network point-to-point
e
Enable the software to treat a broadcast interface as a point-to-point interface.
Syntax
isis network point-to-point
To disable the feature, enter no isis network point-to-point.
Defaults
Not enabled.
Command Modes
INTERFACE
isis password
e
Configure an authentication password for an interface.
Syntax
isis password [hmac-md5] password [level-1 | level-2]
To delete a password, enter the no isis password [password] [level-1 | level-2] command.
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.
Range: 0 to 63 for narrow and transition metric styles; 0 to 16777215 for wide metric
styles.
Default: 10
level-1 (OPTIONAL) Enter level-1 to configure the shortest path first (SPF) calculation for
Level 1 (intra-area) routing.
This is the default.
level-2 (OPTIONAL) Enter level-2 to configure the SPF calculation for Level 2 (inter-area)
routing.