RIP

1. RIP is known as Routing Information Protocol.

2. It is a distance vector protocol It is a distance-vector routing protocol and uses Bellman-ford
algorithm to find the best path.
3. It uses Hop count as metrics and supports max 15 hops. Any packet that reaches the 16th hop
will be drop.
4. Its Administrative Distance is 120.
5. It supports Plaintext and MD5 Authentication
6. It uses UDP port 520 for communication.
7. RIP defines two message types: Request messages and Response messages. A Request message is
used to ask neighboring routers to send an update. A Response message carries the update.

RIP Timers

 Update timer: specify how frequently routing-update messages should be sent. The default
is 30 seconds.

 Invalid timers: specify how long a router should wait before declaring a route invalid if it
doesn’t receive a specific update about it. The default is invalid time 180 seconds.

 Hold-down timer: This sets the amount of time during which routing information is
suppressed. This continues until either an update packet is received with a better metric or
until the hold-down timer expires. Default hold-down timer is 180 seconds

 Flush timers: specifies how much time a router should wait before flushing a route from
the routing table. Default flash time is 240 seconds.

There are two version of RIP.

1. RIP version 1
2. RIP version 2
RIPv1 doesn’t sends subnet-mask along with the routing update where RIPv2 does

RIPv1 does not support any kind of authentication where RIPv2 does.