Re: RIP on Livingston Portmasters...
Thomas Tornblom (Thomas.Tornblom@Nexus.SE)
Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:35:36 +0100
> On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Matt Harrop wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes: RIP is the solution. Make sure RIP is on on ether0, off on the
> default route, and off on all the dialup sessions (they won't be
> announcing routes to you anyway). A snippet of a routing table from a
> currently-full PM2E30, showing host routes:
>
> 204.249.225.192 204.249.225.12 HD 2 ether0
> 204.249.225.160 204.249.225.11 HD 2 ether0
> 204.249.225.96 204.249.225.10 HD 2 ether0
>
> (Those 3 routes are from other portmasters, which announced their routes
> to the LAN via RIP)
>
> 204.249.225.64 204.249.225.64 HL 1 ptp19
> 204.249.225.65 204.249.225.65 HL 1 ptp5
>
> (Those 2 are on ports S19 and S5, respectively)
>
> Works the nuts here. 4 different Class C numbers used for dialups, all
> dynamically assigned, too.
I can't get this to work properly.
The PM:s routing table looks alright, but it advertises a net route,
not a host route as I would like.
ComOS 3.1.4 btw.
Thomas
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