A5 - Using Dynamic Ip Routing As An Alternative For Manually Configuring Static Routes - Weidmuller IE-SR-2GT-LAN Manual

A5 - Using dynamic IP routing as an alternative for manually configuring
static routes
Instead of configuring static routes on Router 3 it is more comfortable to use the "dynamic IP routing" feature to an-
nounce the routes of all Router network interfaces to each Router. For announcing the routing information the protocols
RIP or OSPF can be used.
Note:
If dynamic routing is activated but e.g. only the industrial Routers of the machine networks and the production network
should participate, this can be done by assigning additionally a password to the used Router information protocol (RIP or
OSPF). The result is that only the Routers with the same password exchange their routing tables. With this method you
can avoid that routing tables of the industrial networks will be announced also in an upper-level corporate network.
Configuring dynamic IP routing
In this example the protocol RIP (Router information protocol) is set for dynamic IP routing. You can chose alternatively
the "newer" protocol OSPF (Open shortest path first). Both are working properly.
► Select menu Configuration  Network  IP routing Tab "Configuration"
Figure A5-1: Default values of menu IP routing (Tab Configuration)  Dynamic routing is disabled
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