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- From: chuckc@cobalt.corp.sgi.com (Chuck Clay)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Re: RIP hostroutes
- Message-ID: <9208270122.AA16753@cobalt.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 01:22:46 GMT
- References: <9208262334.AA06288@lager.cisco.com>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu
- Lines: 34
- In-Reply-To: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
- "RIP hostroutes" (Aug 26, 4:34pm)
- X-Mailer: Z-Mail (2.0.5 1/15/92)
-
- On Aug 26, 4:34pm, Tony Li wrote:
- > Subject: RIP hostroutes
- >
- > i have seen a strange behavior on one of our AGS+ ciscos. Another host
- is
- > announcing the hostroute of his primary interface on the 2nd ethernet
- with
- > RIP. The AGS+ sees the RIP packet and installs a route to the whole
- subnet
- > through the other host.
- > So the questions are:
- > Does the AGS+ simply ignore the hostpart of the address?
- >
- > Yes.
- >
- > Is there a way to change this behavior?
- >
- > No.
- >
- > Does this still happen in 8.3 and 9.0? (We are currently using
- 8.2(6).)
- >
- > Yes. It will change in release 9.1.
- >
- > Tony
- >
-
- FYI, our 8.3(2.4) beta firmware doesn't try to convert a host
- route into a network one. We noticed this when a host route
- got loose on our backbone and trashed the corresponding network
- route on every cisco we had except the one running 8.3(2.4). Yuck.
-
- Chuck Clay
- chuckc@sgi.com
-