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ONFIGURATION
RIP Overview
Routing information protocol (RIP) is a simple interior gateway protocol (IGP)
suitable for small-sized networks.
Basic Concepts
RIP
RIP is a distance-vector (D-V) algorithm-based protocol. It exchanges routing
information via UDP packets.
RIP uses hop count (also called routing cost) to measure the distance to a
destination address. In RIP, the hop count from a router to its directly connected
network is 0, and that to a network which can be reached through another router
is 1, and so on. To restrict the time to converge, RIP prescribes that the cost is an
integer ranging from 0 and 15. The hop count equal to or exceeding 16 is defined
as infinite; that is, the destination network or host is unreachable.
To improve performance and avoid routing loop, RIP supports split horizon.
Besides, RIP can import routes from other routing protocols.
RIP routing database
Each router running RIP manages a routing database, which contains routing
entries to all the reachable destinations in the internetwork. Each routing entry
contains the following information:
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Destination address: IP address of a host or network.
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Next hop address: IP address of an interface on the adjacent router that IP
packets should pass through to reach the destination.
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Interface: Interface on this router, through which IP packets should be
forwarded to reach the destination.
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Cost: Cost for the router to reach the destination.
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Routing time: Time elapsed after the routing entry is updated last time. This
time is reset to 0 whenever the routing entry is updated.
RIP timers
As defined in RFC 1058, RIP is controlled by three timers: Period update, Timeout,
and Garbage-collection.
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Period update timer: This timer is used to periodically trigger routing
information update so that the router to send all RIP routes to all the
neighbors.
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Timeout timer: If a RIP route is not updated (that is, the switch does not receive
any routing update packet from the neighbor) within the timeout time of this
timer, the route is considered unreachable.
Summary of Contents for Switch 7754
Page 32: ...32 CHAPTER 1 CLI OVERVIEW ...
Page 70: ...70 CHAPTER 5 LOGGING IN USING MODEM ...
Page 76: ...76 CHAPTER 7 LOGGING IN THROUGH NMS ...
Page 86: ...86 CHAPTER 9 CONFIGURATION FILE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 120: ...120 CHAPTER 13 ISOLATE USER VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 126: ...126 CHAPTER 14 SUPER VLAN ...
Page 136: ...136 CHAPTER 16 IP PERFORMANCE CONFIGURATION ...
Page 152: ...152 CHAPTER 17 IPX CONFIGURATION ...
Page 164: ...164 CHAPTER 19 QINQ CONFIGURATION ...
Page 172: ...172 CHAPTER 21 SHARED VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 182: ...182 CHAPTER 22 PORT BASIC CONFIGURATION ...
Page 198: ...198 CHAPTER 24 PORT ISOLATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 208: ...208 CHAPTER 25 PORT SECURITY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 224: ...224 CHAPTER 27 DLDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 232: ...232 CHAPTER 28 MAC ADDRESS TABLE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 240: ...240 CHAPTER 29 CENTRALIZED MAC ADDRESS AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 280: ...280 CHAPTER 30 MSTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 348: ...348 CHAPTER 35 IS IS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 408: ...408 CHAPTER 39 802 1X CONFIGURATION ...
Page 412: ...412 CHAPTER 40 HABP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 422: ...422 CHAPTER 41 MULTICAST OVERVIEW ...
Page 426: ...426 CHAPTER 42 GMRP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 480: ...480 CHAPTER 47 PIM CONFIGURATION ...
Page 506: ...506 CHAPTER 48 MSDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 552: ...552 CHAPTER 51 TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 570: ...570 CHAPTER 53 HA CONFIGURATION ...
Page 582: ...582 CHAPTER 54 ARP CONFIGURATION SwitchA arp protective down recover interval 200 ...
Page 622: ...622 CHAPTER 58 DHCP RELAY AGENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 684: ...684 CHAPTER 61 QOS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 718: ...718 CHAPTER 63 CLUSTER ...
Page 738: ...738 CHAPTER 67 UDP HELPER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 752: ...752 CHAPTER 69 RMON CONFIGURATION ...
Page 772: ...772 CHAPTER 70 NTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 796: ...796 CHAPTER 72 FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ...
Page 802: ...802 CHAPTER 73 BIMS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 814: ...814 CHAPTER 74 FTP AND TFTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 830: ...830 CHAPTER 75 INFORMATION CENTER ...
Page 836: ...836 CHAPTER 76 DNS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 852: ...852 CHAPTER 77 BOOTROM AND HOST SOFTWARE LOADING ...
Page 858: ...858 CHAPTER 78 BASIC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DEBUGGING ...