Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring gated

Conﬁguring the RIP Protocol

preference determines the order of routes from other protocols to the

same destination in the routing table. gated allows one route to a

destination per protocol for each autonomous system. In the case of

multiple routes, the route used is determined by the value of

preference.

Default: 100

Range: 0 (most preferred) - 255 (least preferred)

defaultmetric is the default metric used when propagating routes

learned from other protocols.

Default: 16

Range: 1 - 16

query authentication [none|[[simple|md5] password]]

speciﬁes the authentication, if any, that is required for query packets

that do not originate from routers. If authentication consisting of only a

password is required, specify simple password or just password. If the

required authentication consists of a key that was created with the MD5

algorithm, specify md5. The default is none.

interface is speciﬁed as one of the following (in order of precedence):

an IP address (for example, 193.2.1.36), a domain or interface name

(for example, lan0 or lan1), a wildcard name (for example, lan*), or

all (which refers to all interfaces). Multiple interface statements may

be speciﬁed with different clauses. If a clause is speciﬁed more than once,

the instance with the most speciﬁc interface reference is used.

noripin speciﬁes that gated does not process any RIP information

received through the speciﬁed interface. ripin is the default.

noripout speciﬁes that gated does not send any RIP information

through the speciﬁed interface. ripout is the default.

metricin speciﬁes the incoming metric for all routes propagated to this

node through the speciﬁed interface.

Default: kernel interface metric plus 1 (the default RIP hop count)

metricout speciﬁes the outgoing metric for all routes propagated by

this node through the speciﬁed interface.

Default: 0