Redistribution

From: David Ankers (d.ankers@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 11:18:54 GMT-3


   
My dearest lab mailing list,

Badly in need of help with a topic that keeps comming up here, call me stupid
(I am) but I can't get this at all, I've read Doyle a couple of times and a
load of other stuff and I think every time I understand it but when it comes
to a lab senario I make a complete mess of it. I either miss it off or do it
when it's not needed.

Mutual re-distribution between routing protocols. For me this is a biggy and
there are so many gothas.

What's the best plan of attack for redistribution? Say on the lab I have two
domains one EIGRP and one OSPF, both on the same router. What my strategy for
the lab would be is to always filter one domain from the other. e.g.
OSPF domain = 10.10.0.0 /16
EIGRP domain = 10.20.0.0 /16

(Written with out aid of a router so the syntax might be off.)
R1
router ospf 100
redistribute eigrp 20 subnets
network 10.10.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 1
distribute-list 1 out eigrp 20
!
access-list 1 deny 10.10.0.0 0.0.255.255
access-list 1 permit any
!
router eigrp 20
no auto-summary
default-metric (blah blah)
redistribute ospf 100
network 10.20.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0
distribute-list 2 out ospf 100
!
access-list 2 deny 10.20.0.0 0.0.255.255
access-list 2 permit any

The key question here is I have a feeling that I don't need to do this as the
protocols won't feed back routes in this way? EIGRP uses split horizon so
that would stop feed back in one way.... What about OSPF though or say the
other protocol was ISIS? How does the IOS handle it? As you can tell I'm very
confused about this issue and I always have been. This is a basic issue and
there is no avoiding it, if I filtered in this way on the lab and I didn't
need to, although the config will work (I guess) the procotor will see for
sure that I don't understand this and deduct a lot of points.

The other thing with redistribution is classless to classful, there are some
gothas here as well... Any rules to watch out for?

I guess it doesn't help that I can't get to my home lab now as my wife has
filled my study room with apples. (Refers to an earlier and very stupid
thread.)

D.



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