Siemens S323 User Manual

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SURPASS hiD 6615 S223/S323 R1.5 
370                                                                         A50010-Y3-C150-2-7619 
To adjust the timers, use the following command. 
Command Mode 
Description 
timers basic
  UPDATE TIMEOUT 
GARBAGE
 
Adjusts RIP network timers. 
no timers basic
  UPDATE TIME-
OUT GARBAGE
 
Router 
Restores the default timers. 
 
10.3.12 Split 
Horizon 
Normally, routers that are connected to broadcast type IP networks and that use distance-
vector routing protocols employ the split horizon mechanism to reduce the possibility of 
routing loops. Split horizon blocks information about routes from being advertised by a 
router out any interface from which that information originated. This behavior usually op-
timizes communications among multiple routers, particularly when links are broken. How-
ever, with non-broadcast networks, such as Frame Relay, situations can arise for which 
this behavior is less than ideal. For these situations, you might want to disable split hori-
zon. 
If the interface is configured with secondary IP address and split horizon is enabled, up-
dates might not be sourced by every secondary address. One routing update is sourced 
per network number unless split horizon is disabled. 
To enable or disable split horizon mechanism, use the following command in Interface 
Configuration
 mode. 
Command Mode 
Description 
ip rip split-horizon 
[poisoned
Enables the split horizon mechanism. 
poisoned: performs poisoned reverse. 
no rip ip split-horizon
 [poisoned]
Interface 
Disables the split horizon mechanism. 
 
10.3.13 Authentication 
Key 
RIP v1 does not support authentication. If you are sending and receiving RIP v2 packets, 
you can enable RIP authentication on an interface. The key chain determines the set of 
keys that can be used on the interface. If a key chain is not configured, plain text authen-
tication can be performed using string command. 
The hiD 6615 S323 supports two modes of authentication on an interface for which RIP 
authentication is enabled: plain text authentication and MD5 authentication. The default 
authentication in every RIP v2 packet is plain text authentication.   
Do not use plain text authentication in RIP packets for security purposes, because the 
unencrypted authentication key is sent in every RIP v2 packet. Use plain text 
authentication when security is not an issue, for example, to ensure that misconfigured 
hosts do not participate in routing. 
 
 
 
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