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The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) tracks distances or hop counts to nearby routers when establishing network

connections and is based on a distance-vector algorithm.

RIP is based on a distance-vector algorithm; it tracks distances or hop counts to nearby routers when establishing network

connections.

RIP protocol standards are listed in the

Implementation Information

Configuration Information

Protocol Overview

RIP is the oldest interior gateway protocol.

There are two versions of RIP: RIP version 1 (RIPv1) and RIP version 2 (RIPv2). These versions are documented in RFCs 1058 and

RIPv1 learns where nodes in a network are located by automatically constructing a routing data table.

The routing table is established after RIP sends out one or more broadcast signals to all adjacent nodes in a network. Hop

counts of these signals are tracked and entered into the routing table, which defines where nodes in the network are located.

The information that is used to update the routing table is sent as either a request or response message. In RIPv1, automatic

updates to the routing table are performed as either one-time requests or periodic responses (every 30 seconds). RIP

transports its responses or requests by means of user datagram protocol (UDP) over port 520.

RIP must receive regular routing updates to maintain a correct routing table. Response messages containing a router's full

routing table are transmitted every 30 seconds. If a router does not send an update within a certain amount of time, the hop

count to that route is changed to unreachable (a route hop metric of 16 hops). Another timer sets the amount of time before

the unreachable routes are removed from the routing table.

This first RIP version does not support variable length subnet mask (VLSM) or classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) and is not

widely used.

RIPv2 adds support for subnet fields in the RIP routing updates, thus qualifying it as a classless routing protocol.

The RIPv2 message format includes entries for route tags, subnet masks, and next hop addresses. Another enhancement

included in RIPv2 is multicasting for route updates on IP multicast address 224.0.0.9.

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Standards Compliance

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