> advertise a whole class C that they have pool addresses for. They just
> send out a host route for the part of the pool that they own. This is
> using private knowledge and definitely is NOT an RIP feature. It is only
> guarranteed to work with Livingston products, and certainly does not
> work with Cisco. You are right in saying that Livingston is talking
> an enhanced RIP V1. Since USR bought ComOS from Livingston, get them
> to buy ComOS 3.5 from Livingston <g>. Livingston (as with most vendors)
Well at least I wasn't going insane :)
> by setting up a Cisco to redistribute the OSPF into RIP and vice versa
> to talk to those guys. Make sure only one router is doing the
> redistribution, and no other machine is listening/broadcasting two routing
> protocols on the wire at the same time.
>
Yea that's what I'm working with at the moment. The catch was, that I
believed the RipV1 enhanced might talk to the USR directly (I was wrong)
and figured going to RipV1Enhanced and Ripv2USR would solve all problems
quickly (we only have about 14 chasis, so convergence of routes is not a
huge issue at this time).
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