britt@WINDOM.UCAR.EDU (Britt Bassett) (06/18/88)
I have a p4200 with version 8.0 software and two ethernet connection. The configuration info in question is .... ------------------------------------- IP config>list prot ARP Subnet routing: disabled RIP: enabled Originate default off Per-interface address flags: intf 0 128.116.64.1 Send net routes intf 1 128.117.64.1 Send no routes Received RIP packets are ignored. EGP: disabled Routing information interchange: off Advertised EGP metric: 0 ------------------------------------- All I want is to advertise with RIP on one side the nets connected on the other side. That is, send a RIP packet out to 128.116 with network 128.117 at 1 hop. Instead, with this RIP configuration I get 3 packets full of routes being sent that include a hop count of 16 for all routes except for 128.117 which has hop count of 1. This has the effect that I want, but is a rather poor way of doing it I would say. All known routes seem to be put in all RIP packets! Is there a way to get rid of this unneccessary burden in the RIP broadcasts? ---------------------------------------------------------- USMail: Britt Bassett EMail: britt@windom.ucar.edu NCAR/SCD (128.116.64.2) PO Box 3000 Phone: (303) 497-1292 Boulder, CO 80307 ----------------------------------------------------------
medin@NSIPO.ARC.NASA.GOV (Milo S. Medin, NASA ARC NSI Project Office) (06/20/88)
You're seeing the effect of split horizon with poisoned return. This behavior actually helps to prevent routing loops in most configurations, though it may overkill for your particular situation... Thanks, Milo
jch@DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig) (06/20/88)
>Is there a way to get rid of this unneccessary burden in the RIP >broadcasts? I think this will work: Configure the p4200 to only send information about directly attached networks out the 128.116 interface. The commands to do so are: enable send direct disable send net Jeff
kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) (06/21/88)
In article <8806201537.AA16176@devvax.TN.CORNELL.EDU> jch@DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig) writes: >>Is there a way to get rid of this unneccessary burden in the RIP >>broadcasts? > > enable send direct > disable send net > >Jeff Should read "ENable SENDing STATic-routes". However, "static" really means directly connected networks in addition to statically configured networks. Proteon treats them as the same and calls them "static". Trivial point, but I stumbled over it in the beginning. I think this will do what you want, unless you have some statically configured nets in there. Good advice. Kent England, Boston U