[Xorp-users] RIP not announcing the route

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

Marko Zec <zec at icir.org> wrote:

> On Monday 08 October 2007 11:11:56 Mayank Kandari wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >          I have confired the rip on xorp , but  I am not able to
> > anounce network from my machine.
> >
> >             protocols {
> >         rip {
> >             interface eth0 {
> >                 vif eth0 {
> >                     address 172.16.0.9 {
> >                     }
> >                 }
> >             }
> >             export: "connected"
> >         }
> >     }
> >     policy {
> >         policy-statement connected {
> >             term export {
> >                 from {
> >                     protocol: "connected"
> >                 }
> >             }
> >         }
> >     }
> >     interfaces {
> >         interface eth0 {
> >             vif eth0 {
> >                 address 10.16.0.1 {
> >                     prefix-length: 8
> >                 }
> >                 address 10.16.0.2 {
> >                     prefix-length: 8
> >                 }
> >             }
> >             default-system-config {
> >             }
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> > This is  configuration of my xorp router. Can any one help me in
> > solving the problem.
> 
> Addresses you configured on interfaces and in the rip section do not 
> match: in rip you reference 172.16.0.9, whereas on eth0 you have 
> configured 10.16.0.1 (and 10.16.0.2 as well with an overlapping prefix 
> length, which is a combination which probably won't work on may 
> operating systems).

In addition, you shouldn't be mixing the inplicit address
configuration "default-system-config" with the explicit
"vif/address" configuration. You need to delete either the
"default-system-config" statement, or the whole "vif eth0" section.

Regards,
Pavlin