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Stopping a static route being advertised

mulhollandm
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I have a remote network which is having difficulty picking up all the routes advertised from a backbone network using ospf.

My intention is to put a few static routes pointing to the backbone or to set a default/last resort gateway on my remote network to solve SMS problems, however, i'm told if i do this then my remote router will advertise these routes back to the backbone with a better metric, therefore causing routing problems on the backbone.

Is this true?

If so is there a way to set up the static routes but to prevent the router advertising them in its ospf updates?

thanks for any help/advice

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donewald
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Static routes will only be advertised by your ospf speaking router if you have "redistribute static" in your ospf process. If you have this and want to stop only a subset of statics from getting out then a distribution-list in your redistribution statement will allow this as well.

Hope this helps you,

Don

Thanks to all for your help

CHARLES HEUPEL
Beginner
Beginner