Seeing as IGRP (and EIGRP) are Cisco-proprietary, I'm not aware of any ports
that exist for these protocols to run on non-Cisco platforms (part of the
benefits/drawbacks of these protocols depending on your perspective) -
certainly, if they exist, they're not Cisco-supported.
I've encountered many environments where hosts were running a routing
protocol - typically unix hosts running RIP - more often than not this is a
result of a legacy installation when perhaps there weren't high-end routers
in the network so the servers "touched" many segments for better performance
and/or redundancy. With the advent of (reliable/stable) HSRP on Cisco boxes
or VRRP on others this is becoming less and less common. I typically
recommend that the servers turn off the routing protocol and rely on a
redundant set of routers and set the "virtual" address (HSRP or VRRP) as
their default gateway.
If interface redundancy is desired/required on the server, I like to see
"teaming" interfaces (some vendors may call it something else - this is the
term that I've seen Compaq use); basically what they do is virtualize a pair
(or more) of physical NICs and then configure the OS to apply the IP
address, etc. to the virtual interface. You then connect to multiple
switches to eliminate as many single points of failure as possible.
Unfortunately not all hardware platforms and operating systems support this
yet.
My personal preference - when the network design requirements allow this -
is to not have the servers "multi-homed" to different L3 networks; many
TCP/IP stacks don't handle multiple gateways as you might expect or hope in
a failure scenario (which is why you have the multiple NICs in the first
place).
Fortunately, with MLS (or other 'wire-speed' routing techniques) becoming
more common (also read reliable) the "desired-state" I strive for is facing
fewer and fewer true technology obstacles.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 (well, I did ramble on a bit maybe it's really
$0.03).
Ben
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Robert Nelson-Cox
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:26 AM
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Subject: RE: Does Solaris box and microsoft PC run RIP? [7:5862]
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>how about OSPF and IGRP and etc??
GateD will run OSPF, not sure about IGRP, GateD have a web site, but I can't
remember what it is (www.gated.org?). You can normally download a basic
version, but multicast, and other features ned to be licensed, at a cost.
Rob./
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Nelson-Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:55 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Does Solaris box and microsoft PC run RIP? [7:5862]
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>
> >
> >Dear all
> >
> >I have a router configured with RIP routing protocol "router
> >rip----network
> >50.0.0.0" then I found it discover some route from a solaris box
> >50.100.45.3 and point some routes (as shown below) to solaris box, as the
> >solaris box got route to all these network. My question is " Does
>Solaris
> >box and microsoft PC run RIP? if yes, how to enable and configure it?" I
> >thought RIP can only discover the route from the router? am I wrong?
>
>Most unices run RIP by default. If you disable the routed process, this
>will stop rip running. If you can't find routed, look for gated.
>
>NT runs RIP so i am lead to believe, how you disable it I don't know.
>
>Rob./
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