Configuring Rip Route Preference; Configuring Rip Route Default-Metric - Cabletron Systems IA1100 User's Reference Manual

Chapter 6: RIP Configuration Guide
Specify the metric to be used
when advertising routes that
were learned from other
protocols.
Enable automatic summariza-
tion and redistribution of RIP
routes.
Specify broadcast of RIP
packets regardless of number of
interfaces present.
Check that reserved fields in
incoming RIP V1 packets are
zero.
Enable acceptance of RIP routes
that have a metric of zero.
Enable poison reverse, as
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.

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.
For
<num>
80
, you must specify a number between 1 and 16.
rip set default-metric
rip set auto-summary disable|enable
rip set broadcast-state always|choose|never
rip set check-zero disable|enable
rip set check-zero-metric disable|enable
rip set poison-reverse disable|enable
rip set preference
rip set default-metric
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