User`s manual

NPort 6000 Series User’s Manual Configuration with the Web Console
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By using RIP, a gateway host with a router can send its entire routing table, which lists all the
other hosts it knows about, to its closest neighbor host every 30 seconds. The neighbor host in turn
will pass this information on to its closest neighbor, and so on, until all hosts within the network
have the same routing path information. This state is known as network convergence. RIP uses a
hop count as a way of determining network distance. (Other protocols use more sophisticated
algorithms that also include timing.) After receiving a packet headed for a specific destination, a
network host with a router uses the routing table information to determine the next host to route
the packet to.
RIP is considered an effective solution for small homogeneous networks. For larger, more
complicated networks, transmitting the entire routing table every 30 seconds can bog down the
network with a lot of extra traffic.
RIP 2 is an extension of RIP. Its purpose is to expand the amount of useful information contained
in RIP packets, and to add security elements. RIP 2 has become the standard version of RIP, and
the original RIP is no longer used.
Routing Protocol: You may select which routing protocol, if any, your network will employ.
Gratuitous ARP: In some applications, you may need the NPort 6000 to send broadcast packets to
update the ARP table on the server. If you enable this function and set the send period, the NPort
6000 will send periodically send broadcast packets at the specified time interval.
Configuring the Route Table
You can access the Route Table by expanding System Management and then Misc. Network
Settings in the navigation panel. The route table is where you configure how the NPort 6000 will
connect to an outside network.