[comp.sys.proteon] RIP packets

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 ....

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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
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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?


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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