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M6100 Web Management User Guide
• Route Redistribution on page 260
RIP Configuration
 To display the Advanced RIP Configuration page, click Routing > RIP > Advanced > RIP
Configuration. The following page is displayed.
 Configure the advanced RIP settings.
1. In the RIP Admin
Mode field, select the Enable or Disable option. If you select enable,
RIP will be activated for the switch. By default, RIP is enabled.
2. In the Split Horizon Mode, select from the following options:
• None — No special processing for this case.
• Simple — A route will not be included in updates sent to the router from which it was
learned.
The default is simple.
• Poison Reverse — A route will be included in updates sent to the router from which it
was learned, but the metric will be 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
3. In the Auto Summary Mode field, select the Enable or Disable option. If you select
enable, groups of adjacent routes will be summarized into single entries in order to
reduce the total number of entries. The default is Disable.
4. In the Host Routes
Accept Mode field, select the Enable or Disable option. If you
select enable, the router will accept host routes. The default is Enable.
5. In the Default Information Originate field, select to Enable or Disable default route
advertise.
6. 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.