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Routing Information Protocol (RIP) provides the standard IGP protocol for local area networks, and provides great network stability, guaranteeing that if one network connection goes down the network can quickly adapt to send packets through another connection. The following subsections describe how RIP was invented, how RIP works, and other ...

 Adminstrative Distance ( AD) Administrative Distance or AD is an integer from 0 to 255 that rates the trustworthiness of routing information received on a router from a neighboring router. The AD is used as the tie-breaker when a router has multiple paths from different routing protocols ...