Ben Rockwood wrote:
Okey, this seems to have become circular.
Let me summarize this way, if I have an OSPF network and the switches don't
support IRDP my options for route distribution are: A) Static routes the old
fashion way, or B) Enable Quagga OSPF and don't configure it to route.
That seems to be the conclusion at which I arrive. Right?
Those are possible (though for the OSPF one I'd actually say "don't
configure to _forward_" as you do want routing -- i.e., route
calculation). There are many other possibilities. Among them:
C. Tell your routers to redistribute from OSPF into RIP-2 at the
edges of your network. A reasonable router should be able to
do that.
D. Configure your hosts to use DHCP to acquire default routes
(along with other crucial configuration information).
If you use either static routes or something equivalent to a static
route (such as DHCP), I'd recommend making the default router address
used be a virtual address set up with VRRP or HSRP. Otherwise, you have
no dynamic way to handle failures. (Running either OSPF on your hosts
or redistributing via RIP-2 solves that problem.)
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