Re: RIP protocol from a Cisco Router

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.