RIP and directly connected routes

[olivier a]

Thank you for the explanations pavel !!
On Mar 10, 2015 10:52 AM, "olivier a" <oatech7402 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm studying RIP and have a really hard time understanding the rationals
> behind to automatically pulling directly connected routes.
> If I connect 4 RIP routers in a circle and neither is advertising it's
> connected routes, it's going to be very quiet ...
> Please help me understand :-)
>
> Secondly, I use 'protocol direct' to have these connected routes pulled
> from kernel tables to RIP and advertised. Is that the right way to do it ?
>
> Lastly, these 'protocol direct' routes override the split horizon rule. Is
> there a way to prevent an interface to multicast its own subnet ?
>
> Thanks, I 'm just discovering BIRD, I may be asking clumsy questions ;-)
>
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