NAT & RIP

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Allan Ackerman

I have two windows servers acting as routers and one NAT
server. RIP is installed on the two routers but I
manually configured the NAT server with the two remote
network segments with the route add command. Is it OK
to turn on RIP on the NAT server or would that start IP
forwarding on every packet and leave my NAT server wide
open?

Thanks
Allan Ackerman

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I have two windows servers acting as routers and one NAT
server. RIP is installed on the two routers but I
manually configured the NAT server with the two remote
network segments with the route add command.
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The "route add" command doesn't seem to be FULLY integrated with
the RRAS and NAT feature -- use the RRAS inteface or NetSh.exe
to add routes when using RRAS/NAT.
Is it OK to turn on RIP on the NAT server
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Yes, but probably unnecessary.
or would that start IP
forwarding on every packet and leave my NAT server wide
open?
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Why are you using RIP? How man routers/nets do you have?

With up to 2 routers you never need explicit routes (the ISP
counts as 1.)

You apparently have 3 routers (maybe 4 with the ISP) and no
alternate paths so it is probably easier to just 'add routes' (in
RRAS or with NetSh.exe)
 
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