From: fwells12 (fwells12@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 05:19:14 GMT-3
You need more than one distribution point to cause routing loops.
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From: Chuck Larrieu <chuck@cl.cncdsl.com>
To: CCIE_Lab Groupstudy List <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: OSPF Redistribution question
> I just complete a frenetic go-through of the Slattery/Burton book -
chapter
> 5 - OSPF section
>
> One section touches on redistribution between RIP 2 and OSPF ( although I
> suppose that is not necessarily relevant )
>
> In any case, setup was relatively simple:
>
> OSPF domain------redistribution_router----------RIPv2 domain
>
> Jus to see what happened, I failed to place the distribute-lists as
> recommended. I wanted to see bad thing happen. For the life of my I could
> net get a routing loop to form. I did things like lower the metric of the
> redistributed routes to below that of the native OSPF routes, hoping to
see
> the RIP redistribution come into the routing tables of the OSPF routers.
No
> dice.
>
> So my question - in a situation like the above, with only a single
> redistribution point, does it matter? Was the issue the particular routing
> protocols? Is the issue of redistribution and loops as a result relevant
> only with multiple redistribution points?
>
> Any thoughts as to why I couldn't cause problems when I tried, even though
I
> seem to have no trouble creating problems when I don't try?
>
> Chuck
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