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A router can ‘poison reverse’ a route by adding an infinite (16) hop count to a route’s advertisement. This is
usually used in conjunction with triggered updates, which force a router to send an immediate broadcast when an
update of an unreachable network is received.
RIP Version 1 Message Format
There are two types of RIP messages: routing information messages and information requests. Both types use
the same format.
The COMMAND field specifies an operation according the following table:
Command Meaning
1
Request for partial or full routing information
2
Response containing network-distance pairs
from sender’s routing table
3
Turn on trace mode (obsolete)
4
Turn off trace mode (obsolete)
5
Reserved for Sun Microsystem’s internal use
9 Update
Request
10 Update
Response
11 Update
Acknowledgement
RIP
Command
Codes
The field VERSION contains the protocol version number (1 in this case), and is used by the receiver to verify
which version of RIP the packet was sent.
RIP 1 Message
RIP is not limited to TCP/IP. Its address format can support up to 14 octets (when using IP, the remaining 10
octets must be zeros). Other network protocol suites can be specified in the Family of Source Network field (IP
has a value of 2). This will determine how the address field is interpreted.