IP Routing Protocols Window
This
window appears when you choose Device > IP Routing > Protocols
on the menu bar. Use it to enable
IP routing by specifying:
- The device on which you are configuring IP routing.
- A routing protocol.
- The network on which to enable the protocol.
Begin with these steps:
- Select the device from the Host Name list
on which you are configuring IP routing.
- Check the IP Routing box
to enable IP routing on the switch. If IP routing is disabled,
you cannot configure any routing protocol.
- Optional: Enter a default router IP address in the
Default Router IP field.
To enable RIP:
- Click the RIP tab.
- In the Available Networks
list, select the address of a network and click Add.
The address moves to the RIP Enabled Networks list.
(To return an address to the Available Networks list,
select it and click Remove.)
To select more than one address, press Shift and click
the addresses you want.
To select all the listed addresses, click Select All.
- Optional: To configure
advanced protocol options on a network that was
in the RIP Enabled Networks list when the window opened,
click Advanced. To configure advanced
protocol options on a network that you just added to the RIP
Enabled Networks list, click
Apply and then click Advanced.
Note: By default, the device receives either RIP Version
1 or Version 2 packets and sends all packets using Version
1. Changing this default is an advanced RIP routing option.
- Click OK to close the window.
To enable IGRP:
- Click the IGRP tab.
- Click Add to add a network to the t
able on the tab. Then use the Add IGRP Network
window.
The new entry will contain:
- The IP address of a directly connected network
- The process ID
- To delete a network, select it and click Delete.
- Click OK to close the window.
To enable EIGRP:
- Click the EIGRP tab.
- Click Add to add a network to the table
on the tab. Then use the Add EIGRP Network window.
The new entry will contain:
- The IP address of a directly connected network
- An inverse mask that indicates a subnet address
- The process ID
- To delete a network, select it and click Delete.
- Optional: To configure
advanced protocol options on a network that was
in the EIGRP Enabled Networks table when the window
opened, click Advanced. To configure
advanced protocol options on a network that you just added
to the EIGRP Enabled Networks table, click Apply
and then click Advanced.
- Click OK to close the window.
To enable OSPF:
- Click the OSPF tab.
- Click Add to add a network to the table
on the tab. Then use the Add OSPF Network window.
The new entry will contain:
- The IP address of a directly connected network
- An inverse mask that indicates a subnet address
- The area ID
- The process ID
- To delete a network, select it and click Delete.
- Optional: To configure
advanced protocol options on a network that was
in the OSPF Enabled Networks table when the window
opened, click Advanced. To configure
advanced protocol options on a network that you just added
to the OSPF Enabled Networks table, click Apply
and then click Advanced.
- Click OK to close the window.