Thursday, November 20, 2008

OSPF routing part VIII - Conditional default route


In the above scenario R3 must only advertise a default route to F4 if its connection to BB2 is up.


This can be achieved by making use of conditional default route advertisement feature. This requires use of a route-map to indicate those routes that must be available in the routing table before the default route will be advertised.


In his example


Rack1R3#show ip route inc 204.12C 204.12.1.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet1/0


ip prefix-list BB2 permit 204.12.1.0/24

route-map CONNECTED permit 10

match ip address prefix-list BB2


router ospf 1

default-information originate route-map CONNECTED



Once the config is applied on R3 the default route pops up on R4.

Rack1R4#sir inc 0.0.0

Gateway of last resort is 191.1.34.3 to network 0.0.0.0O*E2 0.0.0.0/0 [110/1] via 191.1.34.3, 00:16:22, Serial2/0


If i shut down the fa1/0 interface on R3 the default route 204.12.1.0/24 dissapears from the routing table on R3 and subsequently the default route dissappears from R4 routing table as well.

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