Re: (PM) data dropouts / packet loss (fwd)

Matthew E. Sloane (msloane@netrax.net)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:47:39 -0500

MegaZone wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I checked out RADIUS tables, and the Framed-Routing is indeed set to
none, except in a few cases of people with multiple IP addresses and one
dialup account (i.e. a dialup gateway machine).

> >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.
>

Actually, we're working on changing to OSPF, but we're having problems
getting our Ciscos to talk to the Portmasters. But that's another issue
we're working on with Lucent/Cisco.

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Matthew E. Sloane
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