From: Dave Gingrich (Dave@xxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 10:42:52 GMT-3
Thanks to everyone that contributed to this thread.
My original question was intended to be generic, because I could find no
way to control, alter, reduce (or increase for that matter) the IPX RIP hop
count on a single router. No IPX route maps, not even a metric altering
option for router redistribute like we have in IP. The only way to have
any impact is to reduce the effective hops in the network.
There appear to three ways to do this:
1. Run IPX EIGRP in between the RIP routers. An EIGRP 'cloud' only
increases the hop count by one, regardless of the number EIGRP routers
involved.
2. Do the same thing using NLSP/IPXWAN.
3. Tunnel it across.
In my experiments I found that a Cisco box will actually send an IPX RIP
update out with a hop count of 16, but any other Cisco boxes on that
network will ignore it. I don't know if an actual Novell server can be
configured to use RIP hop counts > 15, but I doubt it.
The Novell Way, is probably to run NLSP on the end. If we would prefer to
use EIGRP in the WAN, then we could redistribute IPX EIGRP into NLSP on the
ends.
Question asked, and VERY effectively answered :)
-dg
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Dave Gingrich, K9DC
Indianapolis, Indiana
Dave@dcg.org
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