a network administrator configures a static route on the edge router of a network to assign a gateway of last resort. how would a network administrator configure the edge router to automatically share this route within rip?

Use the default-information originate command under the RIP routing process to automatically advertise the static default route.

In other words, after configuring the static default route (gateway of last resort) such as:

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ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <next-hop-ip>

you would enable RIP and add:

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router rip
 default-information originate

This instructs the edge router to originate and share that static default route with all RIP neighbors automatically.

Key idea in one line

The edge router must be told to *originate* its static default route into RIP, which is exactly what `default-information originate` does.[7]

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