Forgive me in advance for asking a question that I think I may have seen an answer to a couple of weeks ago at groupstudy... I'm currently practicing for my CCNA and have a question about one difference I've found between RIP and IGRP. When I am using RIP it looks like if I specify a default route on one router(let's call it tango) and define it as it will propagate that default route to a directly connected second router(alpha). But when I use IGRP I find that I have to establish a static default route on alpha... the default route on tango is not brought over as a candidate default route for alpha(with the relative IP addresses/ports that is). Is this just a characteristic of IGRP? Or is it something that I'm doing wrong? TIA for any advice/help you may have. Have a good one, dvisick Just so you can see what I mean: ************ IGRP Config ************** tango#config t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. tango(config)#router igrp 10 tango(config-router)#netw 10.0.0.0 tango(config-router)#netw 0.0.0.0 tango(config-router)#netw xxx.210.37.0 (xxx is edited out) tango(config-router)#^Z tango#exit [Connection to 10.0.10.1 closed by foreign host] alpha#config t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. alpha(config)#router igrp 10 alpha(config-router)#netw 10.0.0.0 alpha(config-router)#^Z alpha#sh ip 00:39:24: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console alpha#sh ip route Codes: C - connected, S - static, I - IGRP, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2 E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2, E - EGP i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2, * - candidate default U - per-user static route, o - ODR Gateway of last resort is not set I xxx.210.37.0/24 [100/158350] via 10.0.10.1, 00:00:05, Serial0 10.0.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 10.0.10.0 is directly connected, Serial0 alpha#debug ip igrp transactions IGRP protocol debugging is on alpha# 00:50:00: IGRP: sending update to 255.255.255.255 via Serial0 (10.0.10.2) - supp ressing null update alpha# 00:50:47: IGRP: received update from 10.0.10.1 on Serial0 00:50:47: network xxx.210.37.0, metric 158350 (neighbor 1100) alpha# ************ RIP Setup ********************* tango#config t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. tango(config)#router rip tango(config-router)#netw 10.0.0.0 tango(config-router)#netw 0.0.0.0 tango(config-router)#netw xxx.210.37.0 tango(config-router)#^Z tango#exit [Connection to 10.0.10.1 closed by foreign host] alpha#config t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. alpha(config)#router rip alpha(config-router)#netw 10.0.0.0 alpha(config-router)#^Z alpha# 00:43:55: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console alpha#sh ip route Codes: C - connected, S - static, I - IGRP, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2 E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2, E - EGP i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2, * - candidate default U - per-user static route, o - ODR Gateway of last resort is 10.0.10.1 to network 0.0.0.0 R xxx.210.37.0/24 [120/1] via 10.0.10.1, 00:00:03, Serial0 10.0.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 10.0.10.0 is directly connected, Serial0 R* 0.0.0.0/0 [120/1] via 10.0.10.1, 00:00:04, Serial0 alpha#debug ip rip RIP protocol debugging is on alpha# 00:45:52: RIP: received v1 update from 10.0.10.1 on Serial0 00:45:52: 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops 00:45:52: xxx.210.37.0 in 1 hops alpha# ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]