Re: [nsp] ip route question

From: Daniele Orlandi (daniele@orlandi.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 06:32:42 EDT


Paul Jacobs wrote:
>
> I am looking at my friends Cisco router config that is administered
> currently by AT&T and I have a question...
>
> In the IP route command they have :
>
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial 0
> ip route 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 null 0
>
> My question is:
> Do they need the 2nd route in this router or can I remove it??? if not why?

You probably mean:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial 0
ip route 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 null 0

The 127.0.0.0/8 route doesn't interfere with the default route and is perfectly
legal AND recomendable since it will put spoofed packets for the localhost in
the bit bucket.

Bye!

-- 
 Daniele

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