3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

Configuring RIP Advanced Functions 277
Advertise a summary route
You can configure RIP-2 to advertise a summary route on the specified interface.
To do so, use the following commands:
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You need disable RIP-2 route automatic summarization before advertising a
summary route on an interface.
Disabling Host Route
Reception
Sometimes a router may receive many host routes from the same network, which
are not helpful for routing and occupy a large amount of network resources. In
this case, you can disable RIP from receiving host routes to save network resources.
Follow these steps to disable RIP from receiving host routes:
Advertising a Default
Route
You can configure RIP to advertise a default route with the specified metric to RIP
neighbors.
Follow these steps to configure RIP to advertise a default route:
Enable RIP-2 automatic
route summarization
summary Optional
Enabled by default
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view --
Enter RIP view rip [ process-id ] [ vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ]
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Disable RIP-2 automatic
route summarization
undo summary Required
Enabled by default
Exit to system view quit -
Enter interface view interface interface-type
interface-number
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Configure to advertise a
summary route
rip summary-address ip-address {
mask | mask-length }
Required
To do... Use the command... Remarks
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Enter RIP view rip [ process-id ] [
vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ]
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Disable RIP from receiving
host routes
undo host-route Required
Enabled by default
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view --
Enter RIP view rip [ process-id ] [ vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ]
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