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length subnet masks, and multicast transmissions for route advertising
(RFC 1723).
• There are several serious problems with RIP that you should consider.
First of all, RIP (version 1) has no knowledge of subnets, both RIP
versions can take a long time to converge on a new route after the failure
of a link or router during which time routing loops may occur, and its
small hop count limitation of 15 restricts its use to smaller networks.
Moreover, RIP (version 1) wastes valuable network bandwidth by
propagating routing information via broadcasts; it also considers too few
network variables to make the best routing decision.
Configuring General Protocol Settings
RIP is used to specify how routers exchange routing information. When
RIP is enabled on this router, it sends RIP messages to all devices in the
network every 30 seconds (by default), and updates its own routing table
when RIP messages are received from other routers. To communicate
properly with other routers using RIP, you need to specify the RIP version
used globally by the router, as well as the RIP send and receive versions
used on specific interfaces (page 17-35).
Command Usage
• When you specify a Global RIP Version, any VLAN interface not
previously set to a specific Receive or Send Version (page 17-35) is set to
the following values:
- RIP Version 1 configures previously unset interfaces to send RIPv1
compatible protocol messages and receive either RIPv1 or RIPv2
protocol messages.
- RIP Version 2 configures previously unset interfaces to use RIPv2 for
both sending and receiving protocol messages.
• The
update
timer is the fundamental timer used to control all basic RIP
processes.
- Setting the update timer to a short interval can cause the router to
spend an excessive amount of time processing updates. On the other
Summary of Contents for WPCI-G - annexe 1
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Page 26: ...TABLE OF CONTENTS xxvi ...
Page 36: ...GETTING STARTED ...
Page 72: ...MANAGING SYSTEM FILES 2 24 ...
Page 74: ...SWITCH MANAGEMENT ...
Page 90: ...CONFIGURING THE SWITCH 3 16 ...
Page 245: ...SHOWING PORT STATISTICS 8 33 Figure 8 12 Port Statistics ...
Page 252: ...ADDRESS TABLE SETTINGS 9 6 ...
Page 318: ...CLASS OF SERVICE 12 16 ...
Page 330: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE 13 12 ...
Page 348: ...DOMAIN NAME SERVICE 15 8 ...
Page 404: ...IP ROUTING 17 44 ...
Page 406: ...COMMAND LINE INTERFACE ...
Page 608: ...MIRROR PORT COMMANDS 26 4 ...
Page 644: ...SPANNING TREE COMMANDS 29 28 ...
Page 668: ...VLAN COMMANDS 30 24 ...
Page 686: ...CLASS OF SERVICE COMMANDS 31 18 ...
Page 700: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE COMMANDS 32 14 ...
Page 792: ...IP INTERFACE COMMANDS 36 50 ...
Page 818: ...APPENDICES ...
Page 824: ...SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS A 6 ...
Page 828: ...TROUBLESHOOTING B 4 ...
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