Command Reference Guide

298 ● timers 3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family
Command Reference
timers
Purpose Use the timers command to modify value for the three timers, Period update,
Timeout and Garbage-collection, of RIP.
Use the undo timers command to restore the default setting.
Syntax timers { update update-timer-length | timeout timeout-timer-length } *
undo timers { update | timeout } *
Parameters update-timer-length
Period update value (in seconds). Valid values are 1 to
3600.
If no value is specified, the default is 30 seconds.
timeout-timer-length
Timeout value (in seconds). Valid values are 1 to 3600.
If no value is specified, the default is 180 seconds.
Default The default values of timer Period update, Timeout and Garbage-collection are
respectively 30s, 180s and 120s.
Example Set timer Period update to 10 seconds and timer Timeout to 30 seconds.
[3Com ] rip
[3Com -rip] timers update 10 timeout 30
View This command can be used in the following views:
■ RIP view
Description Usually, the timing length of timer Garbage-collection is fixedly 3 times longer than
that of timer Period update. However, in practice, an unreachable route will not be
completely deleted until the fourth update packet sent from the same neighbor is
received. So the actual timing length of timer Garbage-collection is as 3 to 4 times as
that of timer Period update. Additionally, the modification on timer Period update will
affect timer Garbage-collection.
The modified value of RIP timers will take effect immediately.
Related Command display rip