Re: RIP protocol from a Cisco Router
Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:14:53 +0000
> > I have Linux clients on a segment with two Cisco routers which are set
> > to "redistribute ospf" in the RIP setup. The routers show all, even
> > multi-hop, routes in the OSPF table. The Linux clients, running routed,
> > only show the networks to which the routers are directly connected. For
> > example I am on 192.168.1.0, connected to routerA is 192.168.110.0 on
> > which there is a routerB which connects to 192.168.10.0. My Linux boxes
> > show the route to 192.168.110.0 via routerA but no route to
> > 192.168.10.0. I have tried various setting changes on the Cisco's but
> > to no avail.
> >
> Look at the config of Your cisco box, section 'router rip'. Did You
> define a default metric like this ?
>
> router rip
> redistribute static
> redistribute eigrp 5
> network 194.59.222.0
> default-metric 1 <---- this is important !!!
>
> Doing not so may put the route into 'unreachable' state.
>
Well, folks that did it. Immediatly after punching in that one line, all
yourroute magically appeared in the routing tables of 3 diffrent machines, and
I assume all the rest. Thanks to everyone for their tips, and I dared to call
myself a network administrator.
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