Why do we use no auto summary in RIP?
Herein, what is no auto summary in RIP?
The "no auto-summary" command is used to disable auto summarization at major network boundaries and is need to support discontiguous networks. The "auto-summary" command would be used if you wanted to perform automatic summarization at major network boundaries.
Besides, what is the purpose of no auto summary?
In other word, these protocols perform an auto-summarization each time they crosses a border between two different major networks. To disable this behavior and advertise subnets, 'no auto-summary' command is used.
Auto summarization is a feature which allows Routing Information Protocol (RIP) to summarize its routes to their classful networks automatically. For example, consider we are planning to use eight subnets of class B default network 172.16. 0.0/16, subnetted using a three-bit subnetting as shown below.