You are correct about the distance command. We'll update the solution.
Thanks for reporting this.

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 19:29, Bojan Zivancevic
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, you are technically right about the wildcard/mask thing. DSG way it
> would be valid for any neighbor. But I doubt this would help me on the exam.
> :) It seems we have to have almost mind-reading capabilities in order to
> type the commands expected.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification about the distance...
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Bojan Zivancevic
>
> Network Engineer
>
>
>
> From: Tyson Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 19:25
> To: Bojan Zivancevic; 'CCIE_RS OnlineStudyList'
> Subject: RE: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vol.1 task 8.13 problem (route poisoning)
>
>
>
> Well I would say your answer is more accurate but the answer in the book is
> still OK.
>
>
>
> As Cisco will hold the route in the table until it confirms the other route
> is stable and more preferred what you are seeing is the expected behavior.
> You are not getting another route to replace it or it would remove it on the
> second update and only hold the old one in the RIP database until it
> expires.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP
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> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bojan Zivancevic
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 12:34 PM
> To: 'CCIE_RS OnlineStudyList'
> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vol.1 task 8.13 problem (route poisoning)
>
>
>
> First, I think there is an error in DSG. Second, I stumbled into an
> interesting behavior of the “distance” command.
>
>
>
> This is a task about RIP route poisoning. We can go for offset-list method
> or distance one. The WB goes for distance, ok.
>
>
>
> DSG says that we should enter “distance 255 150.100.12.2 255.255.255.255 1”
> which IMHO is wrong. The context help and command reference agree that we
> should enter wilcard there, and not the subnet mask. So, it should be
> “150.100.12.2 0.0.0.0”.
>
>
>
> That can be confirmed with “sh run | i distance” which then show that the
> router automatically converted the distance command into “distance 255
> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 1” because of the “ANY” wildcard used.
>
>
>
> So, I think it is definite that we should use wildcard. Anyway, I tried it
> this way and it worked. But...
>
>
>
> Now, about the second part of my email. I would really love somebody to
> explain why is this happening.
>
>
>
> When I corrected the “distance” command, I noticed that the update timer has
> not been reset anymore. The route just slowly started to dissapear. That
> confused me and I thought all this is not working. That is why I changed the
> distance to “254” in order to be able to see the route in the table even
> after the command. All other routes behaved normal, just this one. So, i
> chose to wait and saw that the distance command did have the effect, but
> only after the flush timer has expired, the route got deleted from the
> table, and another RIP update came after that. Only then the AD got changed
> to 254... Why the router is not changing the distance immediately after the
> next RIP update? Why the flush timer and all?
>
>
>
> See for yourself:
>
>
>
> R1(config-router)#do sho access-l 1
>
> Standard IP access list 1
>
>     10 permit 200.0.0.9 (75 matches)
>
> R1(config-router)#do sh run | i dista
>
>  distance 254 150.100.12.2 0.0.0.0 1
>
>
>
> .... and we still have the old “120” distance...
>
> R1(config-router)#do sro 200.0.0.9
>
> Routing entry for 200.0.0.9/32
>
>   Known via "rip", distance 120, metric 3
>
>   Redistributing via rip
>
>   Last update from 150.100.12.2 on FastEthernet0/0, 00:00:28 ago
>
> ..... time is passing...
>
> R1(config-router)#do sro 200.0.0.9
>
> Routing entry for 200.0.0.9/32
>
>   Known via "rip", distance 120, metric 3
>
>   Redistributing via rip
>
>   Last update from 150.100.12.2 on FastEthernet0/0, 00:02:54 ago
>
> ... some more...
>
> R1(config-router)#do sro 200.0.0.9
>
> Routing entry for 200.0.0.9/32
>
>   Known via "rip", distance 120, metric 4294967295 (inaccessible)
>
>   Redistributing via rip
>
>   Last update from 150.100.12.2 on FastEthernet0/0, 00:04:01 ago
>
> .... and here it is, the new AD...
>
> R1(config-router)#do sro 200.0.0.9
>
> Routing entry for 200.0.0.9/32
>
>   Known via "rip", distance 254, metric 3
>
>   Redistributing via rip
>
>   Last update from 150.100.12.2 on FastEthernet0/0, 00:00:20 ago
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Bojan Zivancevic
>
> Network Engineer
>
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