Configuring ripv2 route summarization, Enabling ripv2 route automatic summarization, Advertising a summary route – H3C Technologies H3C WX6000 Series Access Controllers User Manual

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To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Define an inbound additional
routing metric

rip metricin value

Optional
0 by default

Define an outbound additional
routing metric

rip metricout value

Optional
1 by default

Configuring RIPv2 Route Summarization

Route summarization means that subnets in a natural network are summarized with a natural network
that is sent to other networks. This feature can reduce the size of routing tables.

Enabling RIPv2 route automatic summarization

You can disable RIPv2 route automatic summarization if you want to advertise all subnet routes.

Follow these steps to enable RIPv2 route automatic summarization:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

––

Enter RIP view

rip

[ process-id ]

––

Enable RIPv2 automatic route
summarization

summary

Optional
Enabled by default

Advertising a summary route

You can configure RIPv2 to advertise a summary route on the specified interface.

To do so, use the following commands:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

––

Enter RIP view

rip

[ process-id ]

––

Disable RIPv2 automatic route
summarization

undo summary

Required
Enabled by default

Return to system view

quit

Enter interface view

interface interface-type interface-number

Advertise a summary route

rip summary-address ip-address

{ mask |

mask-length

}

Required

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

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