Rip Networks

I have been wondering if I am reading to much into questions or not enough
when it come to RIP. See the example below and if something like it happened
to show up on a lab how would you handle it?

R1 --- 10.10.12.0/24 ---- R2 ---- 10.10.23.0/24 ---- R3
                                          |
                                          |
                                      Loopback 1
                                     10.10.2.2/32

Questiomn asks you to Enable rip on R2 and R3. Put the link between R2 and R3
as well as R2's loopback into RIP.

So you do the following on R2

router rip
ver 2
no auto
network 10.0.0.0
default pass
no pass int f0/1 - Interface between R2 and R3

Now after you configure R3 you will see the 10.10.12.0/24 network from R3. In
this way R3 has "magically connectivity" to the 10.10.12.0 network via RIP.

Now I could filter that network out of the updates such as an offset list of
16 directed on the outbound updates to R3 to make it disappear. So, would any
of you go through that step to filter out the additional network?

I can see it looked at in grading to be a toss up. Would that be a good
question to ask the Proctor. Something like "I understand that Rip's network
command is classful based, so by adding the Network 10.0.0.0 command will pull
all of the 10.x.x.x networks into Rip. Is this acceptable or should I filter
the network(s) no listed in the question from being broadcasted to other RIP
routers"

Rob

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Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 16:42:40 ART