International Travel Agency (ITA) uses a combination of static routing and RIP in the core of its network. One of ITA’s key boundary routers, Vista, has two routes to the network, but only one of these routes is advertised by RIP. If you configure the other path statically, using the default administrative distance, the static route will be preferred over the RIP route. However, ITA wants the RIP route to be preferred, because it has higher bandwidth. Therefore, you must override the default administrative distance of the static route to create a floating static route | Configuring Floating Static Routes Host B 24 Fa0 0 24 Vista S0 0 24 Full T1 Mbps S0 0 24 Fa0 0 8 S0 1 24 S0 0 24 Fractional T1 384 Kbps SanJose1 SanJose2_ Fa0 0 8 Host A 8 Objective In this lab you configure a floating static route. Scenario International Travel Agency ITA uses a combination of static routing and RIP in the core of its network. One of ITA s key boundary routers Vista has two routes to the 8 network but only one of these routes is advertised by RIP. If you configure the other path statically using the default administrative distance the static route will be preferred over the RIP route. However ITA wants the RIP route to be preferred because it has higher bandwidth. Therefore you must override the default administrative distance of the static route to create a floating static route. Procedures Before you begin this lab it is recommended that you reload each router after erasing its startup configuration. This prevents problems caused by residual configurations. After you have prepared the equipment proceed with Step 1. Step 1 Build and configure the network according to the diagram. Be sure to configure Host B. Do not configure a routing protocol. Use ping to verify that directly connected link partners can reach each other. 1 - 1 Semester 5 Advanced Routing - Lab Copyright 2001 Cisco Systems Inc. Step 2 Configure routing on the three routers. SanJosel and Vista will run RIP so issue the following commands on the appropriate router SanJose1 config router rip SanJose1 config-router network SanJose1 config-router network Vista config router rip Vista config-router network Vista config-router network SanJose2 will reach Vista using a static route. Enter the following command on SanJose2 SanJose2 config ip route Verify that Host B can ping .
