
RIP configuration task list
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IPLink Software Configuration Guide
18 • RIP configuration
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.
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 (see
page 204
)
•
Specifying the send RIP version (see
page 204
)
•
Specifying the receive RIP version (see
page 205
)
•
Enabling RIP learning (see
page 205
)
•
Enabling an interface to receive RIP (see
page 206
)
•
Enabling RIP announcing (see
page 206
)
•
Enabling RIP auto summarization (see
page 207
)
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Specifying the default route metric (see
page 207
)
•
Enabling RIP split-horizon processing (see
page 208
)
•
Enabling the poison reverse algorithm (see
page 208
)
•
Enabling holding down aged routes (see
page 209
)
•
Displaying RIP Configuration of an IP interface (see
page 209
)
•
Displaying global RIP information (see
page 210
)
Enabling send RIP
By default an interface does not send any routing information. This procedure describes how to enable sending
RIP packets on interface
Mode: Interface
Step
Command
Purpose
1
node(if-ip)[
name
]#rip supply
Enables send RIP on interface
name