Re: RIP hostroutes

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From: Chuck Clay
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:22

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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

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