Re: RIP protocol from a Cisco Router

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

"Adam Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org> writes:

> 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.

Classic RIP does not support subnetting. You should switch to a newer 
version of routed that support RIPII (assuming the Ciscos support it),
or change to gated which speaks OSPF directly.

-Andi