Hey guys, I was just wondering if I could get some help with this.

I'm in the final stretch of my CCNA studies and I decided to setup an all-in-one network in packet tracer. A big series of networks that pretty much just revises all the mentioned content. At any rate, after setting up a static route network and a separate RIPv2 network, I wanted to enable communication between the networks and I have been unsuccessful at redistributing the routes.

Here is the network layout (there is no "logical" layout... I'm just adding features as I revise the topics in the curriculum):


R4, R5, and R6 are all running rip and R1, R2, and R3 are all communicating via static routes. I was trying to use R4 to run redistribution, but I have been unsuccessful at completing the task. As of right now, R4 can communicate with everybody, but the other rip routers can't cross over and vice versa. All cross traffic seems to be getting cut off at R4 (obviously).

Here are the router configurations (the parts that matter anyway and I've attached the packet tracer sim):

R1

R2

R3

R4

R4 show ip rip database

R5

R6

Sorry for the long post, I'm just really baffled by this. I have no idea whether I'm forgetting a small command or if I've missed the boat completely. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

By the way, I'm a first time poster (long time reader) and I really like your forum.

Anybody? I'd really appreciate some help. I've read over my Cisco IOS cookbook and I followed the steps, but I still can't get it to work.

How about a bit more information:
show ip route
show ip protocols
both from R4.
I'm presuming that you've got a packet tracer file attached so if I have the time tonight / tomorrow morning I'll download it and take a looksee. Presuming, of course, that no-one else comes up with an elegant solution in the meantime.

No problem!

R4 show ip route

R4 show ip protocol

Well from reading your diagram, you have a serial connection between R4's s0/0/0 and R1's s0/0/0.
The interface on R4 has an IP address of 192.168.4.1 /24
The RIP process on R4 does not, however, include the 192.168.4.1 interface.
Which means that the other routers running RIP (R5 and R6) won't have this network in their routing tables as they won't have been told about it.

That's the first thing that came to mind. The second one was a little more pernicious. When you say redistribute, do you mean it in a specifically networking sense, or in a more general 'this is where my statically-addressed network meets my dynamically-addressed network'. There's quite a difference.
In theory in can be solved by entering the following commands on R4
router rip
redistribute static
But I think it's best if you hang fire on entering those commands (or save your topology before you do). Redistribution isn't something that's tackled in the CCNA syllabus, nor do I have any notable experience in its behaviour in packet tracer.

Good observation! So I ran the command (network 192.168.4.1) in R4 and now that network is being advertised:

R5 show ip route


R6 show ip route


R5 and R6 are now able to ping 192.168.4.1 (serial interface on R4) however they cannot ping 192.168.4.2 (serial interface on R1). Seeing as how R4 is advertising all my 192.168 networks, would I be wrong to assume that the packets can reach those networks, but cannot find their way back?



Like you said, this is out of my CCNA scope. I was literally just building a large packet tracer simulation with all the necessary elements for my CCNA studies, and I figured why not enable communication between all the different network types (instead of having a bunch of standalone networks). With that said, I guess I meant it in a general sense, where my static network meets my dynamic one.

Thanks for your answers so far!

like you said, the R1,R2 and R3 don't know where to respond.
something like adding R4 as the gateway of last resort for said routers will make it work..

The easiest way of doing this would be to issue one of the following:
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.4.1
ip default-network 192.168.4.1

This would mean that when one of those routers doesn't know where to send something it gets directed towards R4's S0/0/0 interface. Presuming, of course, that they have a route to 192.168.4.1

Yup right after I posted my updated RIP route advertisements I tried using a default gateway (ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0) and it worked like a charm. Although I had to create a gateway of last resort on each router in my statically assigned network (is this normal?).

Also, is this the best way to complete the redistribution? I mean, had this been a real RIP <----> Static environment, I doubt I'd be using a gateway of last resort to enable communication, right?

I'd have gone with a different design on the network, personally
Although other acceptable answers could be:

LOL really there was no design in mind... it was just for studying/fun.

Thanks for your answers.

just to be clear
you can't redistribute RIP routes into static routes.
redistribution occurs between 2 different routing protocols.