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Introduction

RIP is an industry-standard distance-vector IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) that uses routing-by-rumor logic to learn and share routes between routers on a network. The main versions of RIP are RIPv1 and RIPv2 (which use IPv4) and RIPng (which uses IPv6). RIP is easy to configure and uses less CPU than a link state routing protocol does.

As a distance-vector protocol, RIP collects information about a router’s neighbors and nearby hops, not about the entire network. Also, to send a packet from one router to another, RIP chooses the pathway of fewest hops, not of highest bandwidth, and this is one of its disadvantages. Other disadvantages include the following:

  • RIP-enabled routers share their routing tables every 30 seconds, and such frequent updates can congest the network.

  • RIP supports at most 15 hops and 16 routers. This limits RIP’s use to small networks.

Contents of the Infoblox RIP Routers page

The page is accessed through Cloud Services Portal > Manage > Routing > RIP Routers and displays the following information for each RIP router you have created:

  • Name

  • Description

  • An indication of whether a router is online or has stopped, and whether it has started or is starting

Click (blue star) for a particular RIP router, and review the following details:

  • Pool: the name of the router’s pool

  • Status Changed: the date and time the router’s status was changed

  • HOST INFO:

    • Host Name

    • Host IP Address

    • Host Status: Online Started, Stopped Starting, or Error

    • INTERFACE BINDINGS

You can do the following on the RIP Routers page:

  • Create a new RIP router: Click the Create button, and follow the instructions in Creating RIP Routers.

  • Edit a RIP router: Select the RIP router you want to modify, click Edit, and follow the instructions in Editing RIP Routers.

  • Remove a RIP router: Select the RIP router you want to remove, and click Remove.

  • Start a RIP router: Select the RIP router you want to start, and click Start.

  • Stop a RIP router: Select the you want to stop, and click Stop.

The following topics describe each action in detail:

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