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From: bambi@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (David J. Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Proteon not accepting static routes
Message-ID: <2187@kirk.nmg.bu.oz>
Date: 31 Aug 90 18:35:24 GMT
References: <9008301627.AA18437@devvax.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Organization: Network Management Group, Bond University, Australia
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From article <9008301627.AA18437@devvax.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, by RUBIN@GRAF.POLY.EDU (David Rubin):
> I came across a problem with our P4200 that I did not realize before.
> When I define a static route to a network, it seems that the Proteon is
> not listening to it.  I needed to turn on RIP in order to get things
> to work correctly, which I'd rather not do since we have a small network
> and static routes would be more efficient.

We do not run RIP, EGP or ARP Subnet routing on our p4200's.  All
internal routes are statically defined.  We have no problem with using
the static routes internally.  Our situation does differ from yours as
we are not yet connected to the Internet (AARNet in Australia) so we
don't have a default/external gateway defined.  Dumping the route table
on one of the p4200's gives :-

IP>dump

Type   Dest net         Cost Age  Next hop          Exchange Tables
                                                      Out     In

Sbnt   131.244.0.0      1    3    None                  .      .
 Dir   131.244.13.0     1    0    131.244.13.254        .      .
 Dir   131.244.1.0      1    0    131.244.1.254         .      .
 Dir   192.48.109.0     1    0    192.48.109.254        .      .
 Dir   131.244.254.0    1    0    131.244.254.1         .      .
Stat*  131.244.7.0      2    0    131.244.254.2         .      .
Stat*  131.244.8.0      2    0    131.244.254.2         .      .
Stat*  131.245.0.0      2    0    131.244.254.4         .      .
Stat*  131.244.14.0     2    0    131.244.254.3         .      .
Stat*  131.244.15.0     2    0    131.244.254.3         .      .
Stat*  131.244.23.0     2    0    131.244.254.5         .      .
Stat*  131.244.22.0     2    0    131.244.254.5         .      .
Stat*  131.244.40.0     2    0    131.244.254.6         .      .
Stat*  131.244.41.0     2    0    131.244.254.6         .      .


Notice that any network that is not directly connected to the box is
statically defined.

As I have said, we have no problems with routing internally.  We are
running version 8.1 of the C Gateway code.


David
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