Changing the metric style

You can increase the range of metric values supported by the device by changing the metric style to wide. The following task enables the wide metric type for Level 2 packets for the IS-IS IPv4 unicast address-family.

About this task

Procedure

Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode.
```
device# configure terminal
```
Enter the router isis command to enter IS-IS router configuration mode and enable IS-IS on the device.
```
device(config)# router isis
```
Enter the address-family ipv4 unicast command to enable ISIS address-family IPv4 unicast configuration mode.
```
device(config-isis-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast
```
Enter the metric-style wide command to enable the wide metric type for Level 2 packets for the IS-IS IPv4 unicast address-family.
```
device(config-router-isis-ipv4u)# metric-style wide level-2
```

Example

The following example enables the wide metric type for Level 2 packets for the IS-IS IPv4 unicast address-family.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router isis
device(config-isis-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast
device(config-router-isis-ipv4u)# metric-style wide level-2