3com 4500 50-PORT User Manual

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 R

OUTING

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ROTOCOL

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OMMANDS

 Enter the routing protocol to be imported. This can be one of the 

following: 

 or 

.

 Enter the cost value of the route to be imported.

Enter a route-policy name. Only routes that 

match the conditions of the specified policy are imported.

Use the 

 command to import the routes of other protocols into RIP. 

Use the 

 command to cancel the import of routes from other 

protocols. By default, RIP does not import any other protocol’s route.

The 

 command can be used to import the route of another protocol 

with a certain cost value. RIP regards the imported route as its own route and 
transmits it with the specified cost value. This command can greatly enhance the 
RIP capability of obtaining routes, thus increases the RIP performance.

If the 

 

 is not specified, routes will be imported according to the 

 ranging from 1 to 16. If the imported route cost value is 16, then 

RIP continues to announce this cost to other routers running RIP, and marks this 
route with HOLDDOWN. However, this router can still forward packets until the 
Garbage Collection timer times out (defaults to 120 seconds).

Related commands: 

.

To import a static route with a cost of 4, enter the following:

<4500>system-view

System View: return to User View with Ctrl+Z.

[4500]rip

[4500-rip]import-route static cost 4

RIP view

 Enter the IP network address of an interface.

Use the 

 command to enable Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the 

interface of a specified network segment connected to the router.