Can someone explain to me what the "default-information originate" command does?

[dveebing23752]

net acad says : " This instructs R1 to originate default information, by propagating the static default route in RIP updates. ", but i dont really understand what they are trying to tell me

[balaji.bandi]

This explains more in details for your studies.

https://www.freeccnaworkbook.com/workbooks/ccna/configuring-rip-default-information-originate

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello,

R1 has a static default route pointing to a next-hop

the command default-information originate in RIP allows to generate a RIP advertisement of 0.0.0.0/0 that can be used by all downstream routers that participate in RIP routing domain if a default route is present in the local node IP routing table (consistency check).

Otherwise you should configure static default routes on all routers and this is not desirable or manageable.

Hope to help

Giuseppe