November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 3m
English
Recall that a split horizon occurs when a router will not advertise a route on the same interface from which it learned the route. In Figure 8-16, router D1 will advertise network 10.1.4.0 to D2 on serial 2/1, but D1 will not send it back to D4 on serial 2/0 because D1 learned this route from D4 on serial 2/0.
Figure 8-16 shows that the D1 router does not readvertise the route to itself, which assists in preventing routing loops.
By default, split horizon is enabled on all LAN and point-to-point interfaces, but it is disabled on all NBMA networks for all distance-vector protocols, ...
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