[j-nsp] Originate a default route

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Jul 28 10:54:44 EDT 2008


I'm trying to originate a default route on a JUNOS router (M10i) that is
currently default-free.  I see recommendations to do "set
routing-options static route default discard", but that seems bad to me
for a couple of reasons:

- changes routing behavior: normally attempting to go to an IP with no
  matching route returns network unreachable, but discard just drops

- changes uRPF behavior: loose-mode uRPF is now meaningless

I think using "reject" instead of "discard" would keep the same routing
behavior.  However, since JUNOS treats "discard" and "reject" as valid
destinations for uRPF (unlike Cisco IOS and interface Null0), I don't
see a way to originate a default route (since JUNOS can't just originate
a default route like Cisco IOS) and still have useful loose-mode uRPF.

Is there any way around this?
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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