April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
20h
English
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Chapter 6. Redistribution
The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity...these are the choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
—Author unknown
By now, you have discovered that minimizing routing tables and choosing the next-hop destination path are critical for a well-tuned IP network. When routing information from one routing protocol, such as OSPF, is redistributed into IGRP, you must be mindful of possible routing loops.
A routing loop is a path to a remote network that alternates between two routers that assume the path is reachable via ...