Disabling host route reception, Advertising a default route – H3C Technologies H3C SR8800 User Manual

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Step Command

Remarks

2.

Enter RIP view.

rip [ process-id ] [ vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ]

N/A

3.

Disable RIPv2 automatic route
summarization.

undo summary

Enabled by default

4.

Return to system view.

quit

N/A

5.

Enter interface view.

interface interface-type
interface-number

N/A

6.

Advertise a summary route.

rip summary-address ip-address
{ mask | mask-length }

N/A

NOTE:

You must disable RIPv2 route automatic summarization before advertising a summary route on an
interface.

Disabling host route reception

Sometimes a router may receive from the same network many host routes, which are not helpful for

routing and consume a large amount of network resources. You can disable RIP from receiving host
routes to save network resources.
To disable RIP from receiving host routes:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enter RIP view.

rip [ process-id ] [ vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ]

N/A

3.

Disable RIP from receiving
host routes.

undo host-route

Enabled by default

NOTE:

RIPv2 can be disabled from receiving host routes, but RIPv1 cannot.

Advertising a default route

You can configure RIP to advertise a default route with a specified metric to RIP neighbors.

In RIP view, you can configure all the interfaces of the RIP process to advertise a default route; in
interface view, you can configure a RIP interface of the RIP process to advertise a default route. The

interface view takes precedence over on the interface.

If a RIP process is enabled to advertise a default route, to disable an interface of the RIP process
from default route advertisement, you can use the rip default-route no-originate command on the

interface.

To configure RIP to advertise a default route:

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