Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

IPv6 Route Filtering and Metric Manipulation in RIP

Problem

You want to manipulate the IPv6 routing table created by RIP.

Solution

There are several types of route filtering available with RIP and IPv6. The first is a simple summary address, which you can configure on the interface that will be sending this summary information:

Router1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
Router1(config-if)#ipv6 rip RIP_PROC summary-address AAAA:99::8:0/109
Router1(config-if)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

In addition to summary addresses, RIP can advertise a default route in addition to the routes in its routing table:

Router1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
Router1(config-if)#ipv6 rip RIP_PROC default-information originate
Router1(config-if)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

Or, to save network and memory resources, you can configure RIP to advertise only a default route:

Router1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
Router1(config-if)#ipv6 rip RIP_PROC default-information only
Router1(config-if)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

You can filter routes both inbound and outbound with RIP:

Router1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#ipv6 prefix-list BLOCK_2E6 seq 5 deny AAAA:2E6::/64