Re: RIP v2 SLEEP TIMERS

Hi Pierrea,

You configured "timers basic 30 180 180 30000" under router rip?

Should the sleeptimer be fifth of those value...if I remembered correctly.
You may try with "timers basi 30 180 180 30000 30000"...

Please let me know if you have any prob.

Regards,

Shogo

On 2010/06/17 17:47, Pierre-Alex Guanel wrote:
> According to the Cisco Field Manual: Router configuration page 198
>
> " The sleeptime parameter sets the interval in milliseconds for postponing
> routing updates in the event of a Flash update."
>
> I have labed it up. It does not seem to work .....
>
>
>
> ============ THE CONFIG SNIPPET ===============
> router rip
> timers basic 30 180 180 30000 ! Sleep timer set to 30 seconds
>
> ============ THE DEBUG ======================
>
> 000412: *Jun 17 08:41:30.827: RIP: sending v2 update to 10.12.0.1 via
> Ethernet3/0 (10.12.0.2)
>
> 000413: *Jun 17 08:41:30.831: RIP: build update entries
>
> 000414: *Jun 17 08:41:30.831: 10.255.255.2/32 via 0.0.0.0, metric 16, tag
> 0
>
> 000415: *Jun 17 08:41:43.739: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by
> console
>
> 000416: *Jun 17 08:41:44.663: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Loopback0, changed
> state to up
>
> 000417: *Jun 17 08:41:44.683: RIP: sending v2 flash update to 10.12.0.1 via
> Ethernet3/0 (10.12.0.2)
>
> 000418: *Jun 17 08:41:44.683: RIP: build flash update entries
>
> 000419: *Jun 17 08:41:44.683: 10.255.255.2/32 via 0.0.0.0, metric 1, tag 0
>
> 000420: *Jun 17 08:41:45.663: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on
> Interface Loopback0, changed state to up
>
> 000421: *Jun 17 08:41:58.551: RIP: received v2 update from 10.12.0.1 on
> Ethernet3/0
>
> 000422: *Jun 17 08:41:58.551: 10.255.255.0/24 via 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops
>
> 000423: *Jun 17 08:41:58.911: RIP: sending v2 update to 10.12.0.1 via
> Ethernet3/0 (10.12.0.2)
>
> 000424: *Jun 17 08:41:58.915: RIP: build update entries
>
> 000425: *Jun 17 08:41:58.915: 10.255.255.2/32 via 0.0.0.0, metric 1, tag 0
>
> ============ OBSERVATIONS =========================
>
>
>
> The first update SEQ 00412 is sent at 8:41:30 so the next update would be
> expected at 8:42:00 plus or minus 5 seconds as per RFC. At 08.41:44 I bring
> up a loopback, which create a flash update (SEQ 000417). I would expect the
> regular update to be postponed till around 08:42:14 because of the sleep
> timer set to 30 seconds But looking at SEQ 000423 it is clear that the
> setting does nothing ...
>
>
> ===================== THE QUESTIONS ==============================
>
>
>
> Note that the "sleeptime" option is not documented in the command reference
> for RIP, but it is there for IGRP.
>
> Also Doyle (Routing TCP/IP vol 1) indicates that it is an IGRP timer only
> ... but the option is available on the command line and one Cisco book
> mention it as a valid RIP timer...
>
> Not sure what to make of it...
>
> The question has already been asked before but does not seem to have been
> answered:
>
> http://www.groupstudy.com/archives/ccielab/200209/msg00712.html
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Pierrea
>
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