Re: Redistribution question

From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 12:16:07 GMT-3


Thank you to all those who replied off-list/on-list. I see it now :)

-J

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:02:16AM -0400, john matijevic wrote:
> Hi James,
> There are a few more tools that you can use to tell what routes are
> being advertised by what protocol. When you do a sh ip route, you see
> that there are external routes which are coming in, even though you
> don't have redistribute connected under the routing protocol process.
> Basically, if you put a network under the routing process in ospf or
> eigrp, that network is going to be advertised to the neighbors, even
> though it is a "connected route". If you look at the ospf databse by
> using a sh ip ospf database command you should see that these routes are
> indeed in the database and being advertised via lsa. With eigrp you can
> use the command sh ip eigrp topology, to look at the eigrp database.
> When you redistribute, from one protocol to another; lets say for
> example from ospf to eigrp; if you do a sh ip route, all the routes
> marked O from output, and any connected route which you included in the
> routing process, which are ospf routes on the router your doing the
> redistribution should be redistributed into eigrp, and you should be
> able to go to remote router and see the routes as external if you do a
> sh ip route on the remote router. The part that may confuse you with
> connected is when you are using a routing protocol like rip and isis for
> redistribution. These protocols don't behave like the others do. And
> this is where I see much confusion from many posts here on groupstudy
> time and time again, this issue has been documented in previous posts.
> Basically, with RIP, and ISIS when you redistribute the protocols into
> another protocol you will have to do a redistribute connected even
> through you maybe advertising the networks in the routing protocol. I
> hope this helps clear up some confusion, you can also can lab this out
> to see the results for yourself.
>
> Sincerely,
> John Matijevic, CCIE #13254, MCSE, CNE, CCEA
> Network Consultant
> Hablo Espanol
> 305-321-6232
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> James
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:28 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Redistribution question
>
> Hi group,
>
> Got a question about redist'ing between protocols.
> It is my understanding that when redistributing between two protocols
> directly,
> it does not perform the exchange through the specific protocol
> databases, but
> rather performed by going through the RIB, which you can see by issuing
> 'sh ip route' command.
>
> So.. let's take an example
> R1--R2--<OSPF>-----------R5--------------<EIGRP>--R7--R8
> s0/1 fa0/0
> 192.168.10.1/24 192.168.100.1/24
> <-- OSPF Sector EIGRP Sector -->
>
> R5 is redistributing between OSPF network (192.168.10.0/24) and EIGRP
> network
> (192.168.100.1/24).
>
> However, when doing 'sh ip route', the 192.168.10.0/24 and
> 192.168.100.0/24 are
> really NOT ospf, NOR eigrp networks, even though R8 sees
> 192.168.100.0/24 as
> EIGRP route, and R1 sees 192.168.10.0/24 as ospf route. However, to R5,
> these
> networks are neither ospf, nor eigrp, but they are Connected routes.
>
> So redist connected is probably the needed solution on R5 to ensure that
>
> connected networks are carried out as well.. However, I did this on R5
> and
> 192.168.100.0/24 is appearing as OSPF E2 external route on R1/R2, as
> well as
> 192.168.10.0/24 appearing as EIGRP EX route on R7/R8 even though I do
> not
> have 'redistribute connected' on R5. R5 just has redistribute ospf under
> eigrp
> process, and redistribute eigrp under ospf process.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for clues!
> -J
>
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