Specifications

Chapter 31 rip Commands
The Routing Information Protocol, Version 1 and Version 2, (RIPv1 and RIPv2) is the
most commonly used interior gateway protocol. RIP selects the route with the lowest
metric as the best route. The metric is a hop count representing the number of gateways
through which data must pass in order to reach its destination. The longest path that
RIP accepts is 15 hops. If the metric is greater than 15, a destination is considered
unreachable and the SSR discards the route. RIP assumes that the best route is the one
that uses the fewest gateways, that is, the shortest path. RIP V1 is described in RFC
1058 and RIP V2 is described in RFC 1723.
Command Summary
Table 20 lists the rip commands. The sections following the table describe the
command syntax.
Table 20: rip commands
rip add interface | source-gateways | trusted-gateways
<hostname-or-IPaddr>
rip set broadcast-state always | choose | never
rip set check-zero disable | enable
rip set default-metric
<num>
rip set interface
<interfacename-or-IPaddr>
| all
[receive-rip enable | disable]
[send-rip enable | disable]
[metric-in
<num>
]
[metric-out
<num>
]
[version 1|version 2 [type broadcast|multicast]]
authentication-method [none|(simple|md5
key-chain
<num-or-string>
)]
rip set preference
<num>
rip show
<option-list>
rip start
rip stop
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