I was troubleshooting an issue with a colleague yesterday and we found the customer had configured "no ip routing" on his 2620..
i am curious as to why and when you would use that command on a router??
cjk
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17 years ago
no ip routing - why use?
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17 years ago
If you don't want it to be a router, but use it as a host, for example if you use it as a terminal server (for console access to other routers), you do not need routing turned on.
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17 years ago
ahh, thanks Jesper!
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17 years ago
Or if you want to do only bridging.
Me, CCIE #TBA
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17 years ago
Well, when you aren't interesting in routing IP, but maybe some other protocols such as IPX or AT? There's more than just IP in the world, but things are rapidly converging to all IP and ethernet. Or, if you are just bridging.
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17 years ago
And you have to remember that Cisco started selling these devices about
20 years ago, before TCP/IP had become the de facto standard network protocol. There are many features in IOS that are legacy remnants of those days.