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Re: (ASCEND) routing tables in P-75: adding 2nd router



At 07:59 1998/03/08 -0500, John J. Gill, CPA wrote:
>I am planning to add a second router to our LAN.  Current router connects 
>remote office, which is on the same NT domain, but a segmented IP address. 
> New router will connect to ISP -- both for the local LAN segment and also 

>I was thinking that the best way to handle this would be to have the 
>current router remain the default gateway, and to add a routing table 
>within the P-75 to route to the second router (since both segments must use 

without knowing more about your network layout, I couldn't say
what is better or worse, but since you called both pipelines
routers, I'll assume you aren't bridging anything,
and probably have a subnetted address block split over the 
LAN and remote offices. 

You could use RIP-2 to propagate routes between the two
pipelines and set the ISP-connected box as default
both for the LAN users and for the old pipeline.

you could also set the old pipeline as default for LAN users,
and set the new pipeline as the default on the old pipeline,
although this will take a few extra milliseconds to route
the packet from one box to the other until ICMP redirects take over,
and would still require a static route on the new pipeline
pointing to any routes used through the old pipeline in order
for Internet traffic to be able to reach the remote users.

-Jim H
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