User Manual

Routing
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M6100, M5300, and M7100 Series Managed Switches
8. Select the RIP Admin Mode Disable or Enable radio button.
If you select Enable, RIP is activated for the switch. By default, RIP is enabled.
9. Select a Split Horizon Mode radio button:
• None. No special processing for this case.
• Simple. A route is not included in updates sent to the router from which it was
learned. The default is Simple.
• Poison Reverse. A route is included in updates sent to the router from which it was
learned, but the metric is set to infinity.
Split horizon is a technique for avoiding problems caused by including routes in updates
sent to the router from which the route was originally learned
10. In the Auto Summary Mode field, select the Enable or Disable option.
If you select Enable, groups of adjacent routes are summarized into single entries reduce
the total number of entries. The default is Disable.
11. In the Host Routes Accept Mode field, select the Enable or Disable option.
If you select Enable, the router accepts host routes. The default is Enable.
12. In the Default Information Originate field, select to Enable or Disable default route
advertisement.
13. In the Default Metric field, specify a default value for the metric of redistributed routes.
This field displays the default metric if one has already been set, or 0 if one was not
configured earlier. The valid values are 1 to 15.
14. Click the Apply button.
The updated configuration is sent to the switch. Configuration changes take effect
immediately.