Configuring rip route preference, Configuring rip route default-metric, Monitoring rip – Cabletron Systems SMARTSWITCH ROUTER 9032578-05 User Manual

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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.

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.

For

, 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.

Enable acceptance of RIP routes
that have a metric of zero.

rip set check-zero-metric disable|enable

Enable poison revers, as
specified by RFC 1058.

rip set poison-reverse disable|enable

Set the preference of routes learned from RIP.

rip set preference

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