Re: (ASCEND) Suppress host routes

[Peter Lalor <plalor@infoasis.com>]

>From: Peter Tscherner <rzuw011@rz.uni-wuerzburg.de>
>
>Until yesterday, we see all 240 host routes of our dial-in-users (modem
>and ISDN) in our whole routers and switches-routers on the LAN. (Because
>these host routes are quite dynamic, it can be worse for modern
>route-caches-concepts, which may have to rebuild the cache, if routing
>changes.)
>
>So we decided to suppress those host-routes in our MAX-equipment
>(2x [MAX4k, 7.0.22, 2x E1]; 1x [MAX-TNT, 7.0.22, 4x E1]) with the
>"pool-summary"-option, which itself needs network-aligned address pools.
>
>We have found, that if we were using network-aligned address pools, a
>static route is advertised to the LAN, which is wrong:
>
>For example:	pool xxx.xxx.248.129 ... xxx.xxx.248.254 with
>		pool-base-address = xxx.xxx.248.129 and
>		assign-count = 126	(=pool-boundary -2)
>
>creates static route: xxx.xxx.248.128/32 -> Ascend-Router, which can not
>work because of the "/32". It should be "/25". So we turn RIP off at the
>Ascend and do the correct static route:
>
>xxx.xxx.248.128/25 -> Ascend-Router
>
>(and Ascend-Router -> default-gateway)
>
>which works.
>
>Now the question: Is this behavior due to 7.0.22 (is it a bug) and if, is
>it fixed in a later release?

This works fine for us in a TNT with 7.2.x and 8.0.1 and it looks 
like you're doing everything right, so perhaps it's a bug in 7.0.22.
-- 

Peter Lalor           Infoasis
plalor@infoasis.com   http://www.infoasis.com/

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