Routing

Just wondering if anyone knows why Juniper chose an export policy of "advertise no routes" when dealing

with RIP. Seems to be completely opposite of what most people would expect.

Thanks,

Andy

To prevent unnessary flooding may be? Security? I don't realy know. But a simple export all policy (0.0.0.0 orlonger accept) takes two minutes to write and half to commit. No big deal for me.

On the otherhand I'd rather invest 5 minutes in setting up ospf......

Hey Screenie - I am sure somebody from Juniper will chime in at some point but I kind of remember this from a training class or from some web training. It has to do with concept of the enterprise routers being mostly placed at customer endpoints where RIP routes would be used for internal traffic first and foremost.

Therefore the "default" is no advertise as that is the more common default behavior.

It certainly makes sense to look at it this way.