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How Your Cayman 2E-H-W Works
Cayman 2E-H-W User’s Guide
C-12
November 2000
Timing out – When a router adds a dynamic route to its routing 
table, it starts a timer for that route. This timer is restarted 
whenever the router receives another RIP packet advertising the 
router. If the router does not see the route advertised for three 
minutes, it considers the route unreachable and deletes it from 
its routing table.
Link down – When a PPP link goes down, the router is informed 
immediately by the network layer. The router does not time out 
routes accessible over a PPP link when the link goes down. 
Instead, how a router handles a route available over a PPP 
interface when the link goes down depends on whether route 
flushing is turned on:
If route flushing is turned on, the router begins advertising 
the unreachable route as having a metric of 16 (telling other 
interfaces and routers that those routes are no longer 
reachable) for two minutes. At the end of two minutes, the 
unavailable dynamic route is removed from the routing 
table. If the deleted dynamic route replaced a less-efficient 
static route, the static route is re-activated.
Route flushing is especially important when a port is 
configured as a dial-in PPP interface, since the router will 
not be able to dial out to re-establish a link after it goes 
down. 
If route flushing is turned off, the router does not change the 
route's status or metric when the link goes down. Instead, it 
maintains its routing table entry and freezes the RIP timer 
for the route. When the link comes back up, the router 
continues aging the route without restarting its RIP timer.
Turning route flushing off is most appropriate for dial-out 
PPP interfaces, since you may want the router to hold onto 
routes it acquired dynamically over a PPP link and not time 
them out after the link closes. If the router receives a packet 
destined for a network on the other side of the down PPP 
link, it dials out to re-establish the link.