OSPF Cost Value Limited to 32767

ID: Q234140

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SYMPTOMS

You cannot define an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Cost value above 32,767 in the Routing and Remote Access Services tool.

CAUSE

The control used to set this value cannot assign a value greater than 32,767.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

OSPF is a link-state routing protocol defined in RFC 1583 and RFC 2328. Per the RFCs, the highest cost for the Cost value should be 65,535. For additional information, see the "OSPF Version 2" section in RFC 2328.

For information about obtaining RFCs, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q185262 How to Obtain Request for Comments Documents from the Internet

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kbui
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb