From: Richard Wheat (rwheat@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 18:21:05 GMT-3
Sandro,
I believe your testing maybe fundamentally flawed :-(
After duplicating your setup I could not get a router to act
successfully as a IRDP client. So I connected up a Windows 2000 machine
and configured it to use IRDP. The machine installed default routes to
both my test IRDP routers, but preferred the one with the higher
preference setting and installed this as the default gateway. Changing
the preference setting made the host install whichever router advertised
the higher preference value. Windows seems to use "1001 minus the
advertised preference" to set the metric for the installed routes.
HTH,
Richard.
Sandro Ciffali wrote:
> I have a question about irdp,
>
> Even though the doc says higher preference is prefered
> to be the default g/w, In realitiy it is opposite.
>
> I am testing this with 12.1.9 routers running the
> irdp, The client chooses the least ip irdp preference
> default g/w. No it is not route-cache, i have disabled
> it. I am clearing arp everytime. I can clearly see the
> g/w being changed towards the least priority.
>
> All I am asking is what should be done in the lab if
> asked to do it? Follow the reality or do it according
> to the doc.??
>
> Can some one pls. advice.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Sandro
>
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