Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch manual Monitoring RIP, Configuring RIP Route Preference

Chapter 8: RIP Configuration Guide

Enable acceptance of RIP routes	rip	set	check-zero-metric disableenable
that have a metric of zero.
Enable poison revers, as	rip	set	poison-reverse disableenable
specified by RFC 1058.

Configuring RIP Route Preference

You can set the preference of routes learned from RIP.

To configure RIP route preference, enter the following command in Configure mode.

Set the preference of routes learned from RIP.

rip set preference <num>

Configuring RIP Route Default-Metric

You can define the metric used when advertising routes via RIP that were learned from other protocols. The default value for this parameter is 16 (unreachable). To export routes from other protocols into RIP, you must explicitly specify a value for the default-metric parameter. The metric specified by the default-metric parameter may be overridden by a metric specified in the export command.

To configure default-metric, enter the following command in Configure mode.

Define the metric used when advertising routes via RIP that were learned from other protocols.

rip set default-metric <num>

For <num>, you must specify a number between 1 and 16.

Monitoring RIP

The rip trace command can be used to trace all rip request and response packets.

To monitor RIP information, enter the following commands in Enable mode.

Show all RIP information.	rip show		all
Show RIP export policies.	rip show		export-policy
Show RIP global information.	rip	show	globals
Show RIP import policies.	rip	show	import-policy

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