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Greetings all, i have an issue that i believe to be small. here is some background of the network i maintane: i have a datacenter that houses 1, 100 meg T-3 pipe that support my 800+ stores. i have 3 cisco 2800 routers installed. one has just GRE tunnels created, 2 are vpn routers. to reach my stores, they all vpn into one of the 2 routers and i create static routes from the vpn ip to the lan ip of the store. Before, i only had 1 vpn router installed, so the current processes were fine. but now i have updated my vpn script for the stores to swap between the old vpn router and the new. so here is where the problem lies: if i have a store connecting to the old vpn router, where its static route was created, everything connects just fine. however, if it swaps to the new router, a trace route shows that it loops between the router the vpn is connected and the old router were the static route is created. im using the "redistribut static" command in my rip configuration, but that is not helping. is there a way for me to resolve this routing loop?

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by cmiller5400

The routers are doing exactly what you are telling it to do. Remove the static routes and RIP will advertise the new route as long as you have a "network x.x.x.x" statement in your RIP config telling it to.

*Disclaimer* = I am not a networking expert. I know a little, but am still learning.

by pv.consulting

I wish i could go back and redo the whole routing scheme, unfortunatly, i inherited 800 clients from the person i replaced. so im just trying to do some patch work. it looks like im out of options though because i have to get this working.

by cmiller5400

Configure RIP on those networks and remove the static route. (make sure that you are using RIP version 2)

Router RIP
network 10.x.x.x
network 10.x.x1.x
network etc...

Or you can use another dynamic routing protocol such as EIGRP to accomplish this.

**: I am not an expert when it comes to routing.

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