RIP with TCP/IP Services v5.1

[Andrew Rycroft]

I am running OpenVMS v7.3-1 with TCP/IP service v5.1 eco 3.

I have been informed from my networking group that the Alpha with OpenVMS is running the RIP protocol. They see this when from their PC they do a "route print". The effect that this has is that it updates a workstation routes when "RIP Listner" is installed.

I have not got dynamic routing enabled, i.e. GATED etc. Does OpenVMS automatically enable RIP ?

With regards
Andrew

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Andrew,

To my knowledge, ROUTED nor GATED are automatically enabled, when starting TCP/IP.

What does TCPIP SHOW CONFIG START ROUTING tell you?

Kris.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

RIP is activated when doing
$ ucx start routing

Disabled by
$ ucx stop routing

Permanently disable :
$ ucx set config start norouting

Wim

[Andrew Rycroft]

Hi,

Just to clarify it a bit further. This system is in an OpenVMS cluster, and I do have a cluster IP address configured. Does RIP get enabled to handle the cluster aliasing ?

With regards
Andrew

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Andrew,

Not to my knowledge. RIP simply means that routers are populating your routing database. If you do "ucx sho rout" and compare it with "ucx sho rout/perm" you can see what it added (some like the 127 rout are added without rip). To disable RIP, you might need to add manual routing info with "ucx add rout". Otherwise, you might not be able to contact nodes on other subnets.

Wim

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Andrew,

RIP is the Routing Information Protocol (see e.g. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/rip.htm

for some basic information). You should only see an OpenVMS box participate in RIP if either
ROUTED or GATED are enabled. Some further information about this can be found e.g. if you invoke tcpip$config and select core-> routing information. Also other protocols are supported. Most of the time networkers are opposed to non-Network equipment doing routing nowadays ;-)

Greetings, Martin