(PM) data dropouts / packet loss (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:32:51 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Matthew E. Sloane shaped the electrons to say...
> RIP routing has been set up so that the portmaster is
>no_broadcast/listen on the downstream (dialup) side, and

BAD. Routing should be NONE to the dialup side. No broadcast, no listen.
Framed-Routing = None in RADIUS. Listening to routes from users is begging
for someone to hose your routing tables. You have no need to listen.

>broadcast/no_listen on the upstream (ethernet) side. Thus, anything

Maybe not bad, but generally poor. If you need RIP at all why aren't use
listening as well as broadcasting. (Personally I'd use OSPF, but...)
If you only need the default route, what else on the network would need to
hear RIP from the PM that it couldn't get from ARP and Proxy-ARP?

Now, I doubt either of these are the trouble.

-MZ

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