IP RIP

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Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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IP RIP is a true distance vector routing protocol that sends its complete routing table on all interfaces (active) every 30 seconds.  IP RIP uses a hop count as its metric to determine the best path to a remote network.  The maximum allowable hop count is 15, meaning that 16 is unreachable.

Below are the two versions of RIP.

  • RIP Version 1 -   RIP Ver.1 is classful protocol.
  • RIP  Version2 – RIP Ver.2 is classless protocol.

IP RIP can load balance over as many as six equal-cost-paths.

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