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From: tli@cisco.com (Tony Li)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: RIP vs IGRP
Message-ID: <34858@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 8 May 91 09:00:47 GMT
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   From: scsabir@tvgurus.hdtv.zenithe.com (Andrew Birner)

   I left out one small (hah!) detail in my original posting on this
   subject:  We are a Class B network, subnetted as class C; the WAN
   portion of our net connects subnets of our Class B net.  According
   to the Gateway System Manual (the Nov. 90 version, for 8.2), page 5-59:

      The redistribution mechanism is not supported for subnets.  Only
      routing information about entire networks can be exchanged in
      this manner.

   I take this to mean that I can't simply redistribute the IGRP
   routes via RIP to my NetWare router processes.  I may be wrong,
   though; I'm rather new to this game.  Thanks to all who've
   responded thus far; I appreciate the input.

The manual is wrong or at the very least incredibly unclear.  You can
redistribute subnet information into RIP.  The correct paragraph
should read something like:

	Subnet information can only be redistributed into protocols
	which support subnet information.

Thanks, we'll fix the manual.

Tony