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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:32 EST
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RIP troubles
Message-ID:  <38d501390.6a9b@databus.databus.com>

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Well, ripv1 doesn't know about netmasks, assumes addresses are
class-ful.
Barney Wolff  <barney@databus.com>

> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:19:43 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> Subject: RIP troubles
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> 
> OK...  I've been playing with routed/gated and RIP off and on for a couple
> of months in the hope that it will help ease my suffering when it comes to
> maintaining eight zillion routing entries on various machines.  I keep
> coming up with the same problem:
> 
> (tcpdump grab)
> 20:44:37.760592 tarkin.smlab.com.router > 192.168.2.255.router: rip-resp
> 5: 192.168.2.0(1) core1-akron.raex.net(1) 208.132.36.0(1) 10.0.0.0(2)
> 0.0.0.0(1) [ttl 1] (id 8214)
> 
> The problem is that 10.0.0.0/8 route that keeps getting sent around.  I
> have several 10.x.0.0/16 and 10.x.y.0/24 routes being used, but the /8 is
> what's being advertised...  This is why I usually give up and do all the
> routing manually.  :(  (There are no /8's defined, other than what RIP
> puts into the routing tables.)
> 
> I admit that my gut feeling is that I'm missing something stupid, but is
> it possible that this is a "feature" of RIP?  
> 
> (BTW: I've tried both RIPv1 and RIPv2)
> 
> --mike
> 
> 
> 
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