RIP on Livingston Portmasters...

Matt Harrop (mharrop@interlog.com)
Sat, 9 Sep 1995 21:02:11 -0400

I'm looking for a solution to a problem with the Livingston Portmaster's I
use. I've got seven PM2e30s, all of them fully loaded. My 3000 od SLIP
and PPP users all have static IP addresses. Because of the fact that any
of these 3000 IP addresses may connect to (and need to be routed through)
any of my 7 Portmasters I've got a very kludgy routing setup.

At the moment, I have my PM2s in a route loop. Each PM2 has its default
route set to the next PM2. The last PM2 in the loop has its default route
set to my Cisco which connect's us to the Internet. The Cisco has a static
route for each network used my my SLIP/PPP clients pointing to the first
PM2. This setup works, but it's a kludge. Of course, as I grow (I'll be
adding 3 more PM2s in the next month) the current solution gets less and
less usable.

Is there any other way to do this? I know that the Portmaster supports
RIP, but from the experimentation I've done, RIP doesn't work for me. When
a user connects to a portmaster, that portmaster announces a route for the
entire network that the user's IP address is on. If I could get the
Portmaster to announce host routes, everything would be great.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Regards,

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Matt Harrop                                       mharrop@interlog.com
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