RIP

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 ...

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 ...