Re: RIP Auto-summary

From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 16:50:12 GMT-3


What you see in "show ip rip database" isn't really a database in the same
sense as EIGRP or OSPF,etc. It's just a table for the summarizations created
under V2. I wouldn't take it that seriously..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Martin" <jmartin@capitalpremium.net>
To: "Joe Chang" <changjoe@earthlink.net>; "MOLINA, MARTIN J (PBI)"
<mm1343@sbc.com>; "CCIE GroupStudy" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: RIP Auto-summary

> So what is the "show ip rip database" command showing me? Again, just to
> clarify, the summary route is only showing up in the RIP database and not
in
> the route table. So maybe the "no auto-summary" command doesn't remove
the
> summary routes from the RIP database, it just doesn't post them in the
route
> table.
>
> Can anyone confirm that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Chang [mailto:changjoe@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: MOLINA, MARTIN J (PBI); 'Joe Martin'; CCIE GroupStudy
> Subject: Re: RIP Auto-summary
>
>
> I thought RIP doesn't keep its own database. All it uses to store its
routes
> the routing table itself.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MOLINA, MARTIN J (PBI)" <mm1343@sbc.com>
> To: "'Joe Martin'" <jmartin@capitalpremium.net>; "CCIE GroupStudy"
> <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:59 PM
> Subject: RE: RIP Auto-summary
>
>
> > Interesting. I have a bad habit of relying on the route table as opposed
> to
> > the database. As a result, I haven't spent much time reviewing the
> database.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Martin [mailto:jmartin@capitalpremium.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:54 AM
> > To: MOLINA, MARTIN J (PBI); CCIE GroupStudy
> > Subject: RE: RIP Auto-summary
> >
> >
> > I was running v1 with discontiguous subnets just to see what the debugs
> >
> > would look like. I knew this would not work. Then I switched to v2 and
> the
> >
> > discontiguous subnets show up in the RIP database, but so do the summary
> >
> > routes, even after a reload.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: MOLINA, MARTIN J (PBI) [mailto:mm1343@sbc.com]
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:45 AM
> >
> > To: 'Joe Martin'; CCIE GroupStudy
> >
> > Subject: RE: RIP Auto-summary
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This might be a silly question but are you running RIP Version 2 ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: Joe Martin [mailto:jmartin@capitalpremium.net]
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:32 AM
> >
> > To: CCIE GroupStudy
> >
> > Subject: RIP Auto-summary
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Why, if I enter the "no auto-summary" command under the RIP process, do
I
> >
> >
> >
> > still have summary routes at the classful boundary in the RIP database?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe just a total brain fart? What am I missing?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Martin
> > .
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