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Chapter 12 Command Line Interface Reference
ip rip timers
ip rip timers
To configure various RIP timers, use the ip rip timers command.
ip rip timers invalid {nn |default}
Syntax Description
Defaults The RIP invalid timer defaults to 180 seconds.
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.
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.
Timers are used to configure the timing of RIP activities. The invalid timer configures the maximum
amount of time between updates of the internal route table. Use the default keyword to return a RIP
timer to its default value.
Examples The following example sets the RIP invalid timer to a value of 200 seconds and saves all configuration
changes. This is the maximum amount of time between updates before a route is marked as expired.
[SN5428-2A]# ip rip timers invalid 200
*[SN5428-2A]# save all bootconfig
invalid nn Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, between updates before a route is
expired and made a candidate for removal from the routing table.
default Keyword, used to return the specified timer to the default value. The default
invalid timer is180 seconds.
Release Modification
3.2.1 This command was introduced.