Re: Default Route: Broadcast on or off (fwd)

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Thu, 29 May 1997 18:34:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 29 May 1997, MegaZone wrote:

> Huh?
>
> RIP is *ignored* both for on-demand and idle timers.

I know you SAY that MZ, but I can prove it. It may very well work that
way in theory. But I have a customer with a pm 11, they call into a pm 2
at my office on a ded line. With rip routing ON, the idletimer stays at 0
all the time. When I turn it off, idletimeout starts couting minutes.

Now MAYBE something ELSE is occuring and I often wondered about this
because there are times that you DO want to broadcast routes but you DONT
necessarily want to keep the link up 24/7. i just figured that YOU guys
figured that if we are broadcasting routes to a remote site, then it must
be a remote NETWORK and it must be 24/7.

> It's be silly to keep a link up just for RIP, it'd never go down.

Agreed, but I can reproduce the problem using 2 pm 2's dialed into each
other and set up a telnet session a ddo NOTHING for 1 hour and the
idletimeout on the host dial in stays at 0.

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