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History

This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell

Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.

The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.

Version Description

9.5(0.1) Introduced on the Z9500.

9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.

8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.

8.3.12.0 Introduced on the S4810.

8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.

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.

Z9500

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