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Chapter 12 Command Line Interface Reference

ip rip enable

To enable the SN 5428-2 Storage Router to learn dynamic routing using the routing information protocol

(RIP), use the ip rip enable command. To disable dynamic routing via RIP, use the no form of this

command.

ip rip enable

no ip rip enable

Syntax Description This command has no arguments or keywords.

Defaults RIP is disabled by default.

Command Modes Administrator.

Command History

Usage Guidelines Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) for dynamic routing and uses

a distance vector algorithm to determine the best route between nodes in an Autonomous System (AS).

The SN 5428-2 Storage Router is a passive, or silent, RIP device; it updates routes based on RIP

advertisements but it does not advertise. The storage router listens for advertised routes, learning routing

information dynamically as it is exchanged in the network. The storage router supports both RIP

version 1 (v1) and RIP version 2 (v2).

The SN 5428-2 RIP implementation runs RIP v2 in broadcast mode. This allows the storage router to

learn from either RIP v1 or RIP v2 hosts that are operating in broadcast mode. The storage router will

not learn routes from RIP v2 hosts operating in multicast mode.

If you are using RIP in your network, you can enable RIP support on the storage router. RIP eliminates

or reduces the need to configure static routes for the storage router, because the storage router updates

the route table based on the RIP advertisements.

The storage router can learn a maximum of 200 routes. Additional routes that are received are silently

ignored. In the routing table, a static route will always override a dynamic route by default. To modify

this behavior, change the administrative distance of a static route to a value greater than 120.

Examples The following example enables RIP for the SN 5428-2 Storage Router:

[SN5428-2A]# ip rip enable

[SN5428-2A] Dec 09 17:54:16: %IP-5-IRMRSAR: RIP Services are running

The following command disables RIP:

[SN5428-2A]# no ip rip enable

Release Modification

3.2.1 This command was introduced.