Monday 4 March 2013

RIP (Routing Information Protocol)

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a true distance-vector routing protocol. RIP sends the complete routing table out to all active interfaces every 30 seconds. RIP only uses hop count to determine the best way to a remote network, but it has a maximum allowable hop count of 15 by default, meaning that 16 is deemed unreachable. RIP works well in small networks, but it’s inefficient on large networks with slow WAN links or on networks with a large number of routers installed.
                RIP version 1 uses only classful routing, which means that all devices in the network must use the same subnet mask. This is because RIP version 1 doesn’t send updates with subnet mask information in tow. RIP version 2 provides something called prefix routing and does send subnet mask information with the route updates. This is called classless routing. RIP uses four kinds of timers to regulate its performances:
Route update timer:  Sets the interval (typically 30 seconds) between periodic routing updates in which the router sends a complete copy of its routing table out to all neighbors.
Route invalid timer:  Determines the length of time that must elapse (180 seconds) before a router determine that a route has become invalid. It will come to this conclusion if it hasn’t heard any update about a particular route for that period. When that happens, the router will send out updates to all its neighbors letting them know that the route is invalid.
Holddown timer: This sets the amount of time during which routing information is suppressed. Routes will enter into the Holddown state when an update packet is received that indicated the route is unreachable. This continues either until an update packet is received with a better metric or until the holddown timer expires. The default is 180 seconds.
Route flush timer:  Sets the time between a route becoming invalid and its removal from the routing table (120 seconds). Before it’s removed from the table, the router notifies its neighbors of that route’s impending demise. This gives the router enough time to tell its neighbors about the invalid route before the local routing table is updated. See how to configure RIP

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