Re: RIP protocol from a Cisco Router

["Andreas G. Schindler" <schindler@xxxxxx>]

Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm running Linux 2.0.33 plus gated in a cisco routing environment
with much success. You may wish to enable rip version 2 support both
in cisco's and the gated config to get the advantage of subnet based
routing (CIDR :== classless interdomain routing) while still using
RIP. This however makes it necessary to enable 'allmulti' on your 
Linux ifonfig parameters.  

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