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as well as the number of routers/gateways that a packet must travel through to reach the receiving
address.
RIP 2 is an enhancement of RIP 1 which allows IP subnet information to be shared among routers,
and provides for authentication of routing updates. When this protocol is chosen, the router will use
the multicast address 224.0.0.9 to send and/or receive RIP 2 packets for this network interface. As
with RIP 1, the router's routing table will be periodically updated with information received in these
packets.
RIP 2 is more useful in a variety of environments and allows the use of variable subnet masks on
your network. It is also necessary for implementation of "classless" addressing as accomplished with
CIDR (Classless Inter Domain Routing).
It is recommended that RIP 2 be used on any segment where all routers can use the same IP routing
protocol. If one or more routers on a segment must use RIP 1, then all other routers on that segment
should also be set to use RIP 1.
18.3 RIP Configuration Task List
To configure RIP, perform the tasks described in the following sections. The tasks in the first two
sections are required; the tasks in the remaining sections are optional. Most of the RIP commands
have the character of a flag, which is either enabled or disabled.
•
Enabling Send RIP
• Enabling an Interface to Receive RIP
• Specifying the Send RIP Version
• Specifying the Receive RIP Version
• Enabling RIP Learning
•
Enabling an Interface to Receive RIP
•
Enabling RIP Announcing
• Enabling RIP Auto Summarization
• Specifying The Default Route Metric
• Enabling RIP Split-Horizon Processing
• Enabling The Poison Reverse Algorithm
•
Enabling Holding Down Aged Routes
•
Displaying RIP Configuration of an IP Interface
• Displaying Global RIP Information
18.4 Enabling Send RIP
By default an interface does not send any routing information.
Procedure
To enable sending RIP packets on interface
Mode
Interface
Command Purpose
Step 1
node (if-ip)[ name ]#rip supply Enables send RIP on interface name
Example: Enabling Send RIP
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The following example shows how to enable send RIP on IP interface wan on a SmartNode.