Installation and Getting Started Guide
3.Click on the plus sign next to RIP in the tree view to expand the list of RIP option links.
4.Click on the Redistribution Filter link.
•If the device does not have any RIP redistribution filters, the RIP Redistribution Filter configuration panel is displayed, as shown in the following example.
•If a RIP redistribution filter is already configured and you are adding a new filter, click on the Add Redistribution Filter link to display the RIP Neighbor Filter configuration panel, as shown in the following example.
•If you are modifying an existing RIP redistribution filter, click on the Modify button to the right of the row describing the filter to display the RIP Redistribution Filter configuration panel, as shown in the following example.
5.Enter an IP address and mask to filter on a specific network. You can use zeros (0.0.0.0) instead of a specific interface to allow all IP addresses or mask ranges.
6.Enter the filter ID.
7.Select either Permit or Deny as the action.
8.Select the types of routes you want to filter on next to Protocol.
9.Enable the Match Metric parameter if you want to limit the import of routes to only those that match the metric specified in the Match Metric field.
10.Enable the Set Metric parameter to define and assign a specific metric to an imported route. If enabled, the specified value overrides the default metric defined on the RIP configuration panel.
11.Click the Add button to save the change to the device’s
12.Select the Save link at the bottom of the dialog. Select Yes when prompted to save the configuration change to the
Changing the Redistribution Metric
When the routing switch redistributes a route into RIP, the software assigns a RIP metric (cost) to the route. By default, the software assigns a metric of one to each route that is redistributed into RIP. You can increase the metric that the routing switch assigns, up to 15.
USING THE CLI
To change the RIP metric the routing switch assigns to redistributed routes, enter a command such as the following:
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