The RIP metric is composed of hop count, and the maximum valid metric is 15. Anything above 15 is considered infinite; you can use 16 to describe an infinite metric in RIP. When redistributing a protocol into RIP, Cisco recommends that you use a low ...
yes another reason this is going collaboration w/ python code in 10 to 20 years networking will be all script?? well I thought it would be all ipv6 by now too so who knows? Thanks
Subnets: 128, Hosts per subnet: 510 thats a /23 and u would be wasting a lot of ip's but u would have room to grow network and in lab its fine mask=255.255.254.0 this way no overlap u would have 128 networks w/510 hosts for each of those 128 subnets....