From: Peter Van Oene (pvo@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 17:34:01 GMT-3
Hey Chuck,
I can't off top of my head see how you obtain a routing loop in a linear networ
k. With two points of redistribution (mutual redist if you like), this becomes
a fairly significant issue as I'm sure everyone here knows.
Maybe we're missing something.
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On 1/7/2001 at 9:26 PM Chuck Larrieu wrote:
>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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