Happy New Year!! I need a little help on what a passive interface is. From what I can gather, a passive interface does not advertise its route to its neighbor ? Now if that is the case, why can I still ping an interface that is set to passive. Please note: This is excluding directly connected routes.
For example, I set my Cisco 2509 ethernet interface to passive. Why can I still ping the ethernet address from my neighboring router Cisco 4000 ? I am running IGRP. Why does the ethernet network show up in its routing table for my Cisco 4000. From poking around with the passive interface command it seems that I can not ping my ethernet address only if I set the Serial interfaces to passive also. This seems odd. I thought if I made an ethernet interface passive, I should not be able to ping it from a neighboring router or any other router since it is not being advertised. Below is a sample of me being able to ping serial 1 off my Cisco 2509 from my Cisco 4000. Serial 1 is "not" directly connected. Serial 1 is being advertised. Current configuration: ! version 12.0 service timestamps debug uptime service timestamps log uptime no service password-encryption ! hostname Cisco2509 ! enable password router ! ip subnet-zero ipx routing 0010.7be8.22f4 ! ! ! ! ! interface Ethernet0 ip address 12.11.12.1 255.255.255.240 no ip directed-broadcast delay 1000 ! interface Serial0 ip address 172.16.18.1 255.255.255.240 no ip directed-broadcast no ip mroute-cache ipx network 3 no fair-queue clockrate 1000000 ! interface Serial1 ip address 172.17.18.2 255.255.255.240 no ip directed-broadcast clockrate 4000000 ! router igrp 1 passive-interface Ethernet0 passive-interface Serial0 passive-interface Serial1 offset-list 2 out 11000 Serial0 network 12.0.0.0 network 172.16.0.0 network 172.17.0.0 ! ip classless ! access-list 2 deny 12.11.12.1 ! ! ! ! ! line con 0 transport input none line 1 8 line aux 0 line vty 0 4 password cisco login ! end Cisco2509# Cisco_4000>ping 172.17.18.1 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.17.18.1, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 120/120/124 ms Cisco_4000>ping 12.11.12.1 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 12.11.12.1, timeout is 2 seconds: ..... Success rate is 0 percent (0/5) Cisco_4000> Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30648&t=30648 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
