RE: Simple redistribution question

From: Schulz, Dave (DSchulz@dpsciences.com)
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 10:57:02 GMT-3


Does redistribution take place because a route is in the routing table, or,
because the route is in the database for the protocol that is being
redistributed?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com
To: ccie2k4; J. Holmes
Cc: Cisco certification
Sent: 12/27/2005 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: Simple redistribution question

To figure out why it doesn't work the way you explain below lets see
what would happen if it did work that way.

We'll say the local router is R1 and network in question is the
10.0.0.0/8 network learned via RIP from R2. R1 is running RIP and OSPF.
The RIP route (10.0.0.0/8) is redistributed into OSPF on R1. As per
your explanation below it now shows up in R1's routing table as an
external OSPF route by overtaking the RIP route due to the lower
administrative distance of OSPF.

Here in lies the problem. Since the RIP route that told R1 to reach the
10.0.0.0/8 via R2 is now not in the routing table, how would R1 know how
to reach the 10.0.0.0/8 network? Also since the 10.0.0.0/8 RIP route is
not in the routing table via RIP it can not be redistributed into OSPF.

This should explain why redistribution works the way I stated in an
earlier e-mail on this topic.

HTH,

Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security)
bdennis@internetworkexpert.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
ccie2k4
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:00 PM
To: J. Holmes
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Simple redistribution question

Hi All,

Maybe I haven't quite understood the original question completely but
wouldn't the route show up as an OSPF route once its redistributed from
RIP
to OSPF on the router performing mutual redistribution hence leading to
a
loop. My thinking over here is based on the fact that OSPF has a lower
admin
distance than RIP hence it should overwrite the RIP route in the table.
Please correct me if I am incorrect on this. Thanks



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