[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] KA9Q and routing

UPH008@DDOHRZ11.BITNET (Wilhelm Becker) (05/17/91)

Always activate split horizon RIP broadcasts when routing between fully
connected networks like ethernet. This suppresses the announcing of routes
pointing to the interface through which the broadcast is sent. It's
activated by an extra parameter on the RIP add command. I don't have the
exact syntax at hand.



    Wilhelm Becker               Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie,
                                 Und gruen des Lebens goldner Baum
    Institut fuer Physik
    Universitaet Dortmund          Goethe, Faust I

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FRUTIG%BRLNCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (05/17/91)

Hello,

	I am using KA9Q (NOS) package as an IP gateway between
	two Ethernets, but I am experimenting a routing problem.
	This is the scene :

                            KA9Q                   IP/X25
	     Sun  Sun        PC              Sun-----------> world
	      |    |       |    |             |
	      --------------    ---------------
		138.82.2	139.82.1

	I have defined a default route in the configuration file, so
	all the hosts on the 139.82.2 side can reach the world. But,
	the problem is that the KA9Q gateway sends this route to
	both subnets, changing the default route of the hosts at the
	139.82.1 side, pointing it back to the KA9Q gateway !
        I don't want to add a route explicitly at every host of
	139.82.2 subnet, and want that KA9Q gateway continue to supply
	its routing table to both subnets (see the rip add commands below).

Any help/idea/suggestion would be GREAT ! Thanks in advance.

Marcello Frutig - FRUTIG at BRLNCC.BITNET
Network Manager at
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL


This is the autoexec.net config file :

hostname rdcdi-gw.rdc.puc-rio
#
attach packet 0x60 ec0 5 1500 [139.82.1.1]
ifconfig ec0 ipaddr 139.82.1.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 139.82.1.0
#
attach packet 0x61 ec1 5 1500 [139.82.2.1]
ifconfig ec1 ipaddr 139.82.2.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 139.82.2.0
#
route add 139.82.1.0/26 ec0
route add 139.82.2.0/26 ec1
route add default ec0
#
domain addserver 139.82.1.2
domain suffix rdc.puc-rio
#
arp add 139.82.1.0 ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
arp add 139.82.2.0 ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
#
tcp window 1500
tcp mss 1460
#
start rip
#
rip add 139.82.1.0 60
rip add 139.82.2.0 60
rip merge on