Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Route Redistribution

Problem

You want to redistribute IPv6 routes between routing protocols.

Solution

First, we will show an example of redistributing from OSPF into RIPv6:

Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#ipv6 router rip RIP_PROC
Router1(config-rtr)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 5
Router1(config-rtr)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

And here is an example showing redistribution of RIPv6 into OSPF:

Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#ipv6 router ospf 1
Router1(config-rtr)#redistribute rip RIP_PROC 
Router1(config-rtr)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

You can advertise a default route with OSPF by using the default-information originate command:

Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#ipv6 router ospf 1
Router1(config-rtr)#default-information originate always 
Router1(config-rtr)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#

Discussion

Both of these examples show a minimal configuration for redistributing from one routing protocol into another. In a moment we will show some more sophisticated examples, but these examples show the basic requirements. In the first example, we redistribute OSPF routes into RIP:

Router1(config)#ipv6 router rip RIP_PROC
Router1(config-rtr)#redistribute ospf 1metric 5

Note that, in this example, we have somewhat arbitrarily set a default metric for RIP to use for all of these redistributed ...