RIP version 1
Routing Protocols and
Concepts – Chapter 5
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Objectives
Describe the functions, characteristics, and operation
of the RIPv1 protocol.
Configure a device for using RIPv1.
Verify proper RIPv1 operation.
Describe how RIPv1 performs automatic
summarization.
Configure, verify, and troubleshoot default routes
propagated in a routed network implementing RIPv1.
Use recommended techniques to solve problems
related to RIPv1.
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RIPv1
RIP Characteristics
– A classful, Distance Vector (DV) routing
protocol
– Metric = hop count
– Routes with a hop count > 15 are unreachable
– Updates are broadcast every 30 seconds
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RIPv1
RIP Message Format
RIP header - divided
into 3 fields
– Command field
– Version field
– Must be zero
Route Entry -
composed of 3 fields
– Address family identifier
– IP address
– Metric
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RIPv1
RIP Operation
– RIP uses 2 message types:
• Request message
– This is sent out on startup by each RIP enabled
interface
– Requests all RIP enabled neighbors to send routing
table
• Response message
– Message sent to requesting router containing routing
table
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RIPv1
IP addresses initially
divided into classes
– Class A
– Class B
– Class C
RIP is a classful routing
protocol
– Does not send subnet
masks in routing
updates
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RIPv1
Administrative Distance
– RIP’s default administrative distance is 120
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Basic RIPv1 Configuration
A typical topology
suitable for use by
RIPv1 includes:
– Three router set up
– No PCs attached to
LANs
– Use of 5 different IP
subnets
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Basic RIPv1 Configuration
Router RIP Command
– To enable RIP enter:
• Router rip at the global configuration prompt
• Prompt will look like R1(config-router)#
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Basic RIPv1 Configuration
Specifying Networks
– Use the network
command to:
• Enable RIP on all
interfaces that
belong to this
network
• Advertise this
network in RIP
updates sent to
other routers every
30 seconds
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Verification and Troubleshooting
Show ip Route
To verify and troubleshoot
routing
– Use the following commands:
• show ip route
• show ip protocols
• debug ip rip
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Verification and Troubleshooting
show ip protocols command
– Displays routing protocol configured on router
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Verification and Troubleshooting
Debug ip rip command
– Used to display RIP routing updates as they are
happening
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Verification and Troubleshooting
Passive interface command
– Used to prevent a router from sending updates through
an interface
– Example:
• Router(config-router)#passive-interface interface-type interface-number
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Verification and Troubleshooting
Passive interfaces
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Automatic Summarization
Modified Topology
The original scenario has been modified
such that:
– Three classful networks are used:
• [Link]/16
• [Link]/24
• [Link]/24
– The [Link]/16 network is
subnetted into three subnets:
• [Link]/24
• [Link]/24
• [Link]/24
– The following devices are part of the
[Link]/16 classful network address:
• All interfaces on R1
• S0/0/0 and Fa0/0 on R2
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Automatic Summarization
Configuration Details
– To remove the RIP
routing process use the
following command
• No router rip
– To check the
configuration use the
following command
• Show run
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Automatic Summarization
Boundary Routers
– RIP automatically summarizes classful networks
– Boundary routers summarize RIP subnets from one
major network to another
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Automatic Summarization
Processing RIP Updates
2 rules govern RIPv1 updates:
– If a routing update and the
interface it’s received on belong
to the same network then
• The subnet mask of the
interface is applied to the
network in the routing update
– If a routing update and the
interface it’s received on belong
to a different network then
• The classful subnet mask of
the network is applied to the
network in the routing update
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Automatic Summarization
Sending RIP Updates
– RIP uses automatic
summarization to
reduce the size of a
routing table
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Automatic Summarization
Advantages of automatic
summarization:
– The size of routing
updates is reduced
– Single routes are used
to represent multiple
routes which results in
faster lookup in the
routing table
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Automatic Summarization
Disadvantage of
Automatic
Summarization:
– Does not support
discontiguous
networks
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Automatic Summarization
Discontiguous
Topologies do not
converge with RIPv1
A router will only
advertise major
network addresses
out interfaces that do
not belong to the
advertised route
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Default Route and RIPv1
Modified Topology: Scenario C
Default routes
– Packets that are not defined specifically in a routing
table will go to the specified interface for the default
route
– Example: Customer routers use default routes to
connect to an ISP router
– Command used to configure a default route is ip
route [Link] [Link] s0/0/1
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Default Route and RIPv1
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Default Route and RIPv1
Propagating the Default Route in RIPv1
Default-information originate command
– This command is used to specify that the router is to originate
default information, by propagating the static default route in
RIP update
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Summary
RIP characteristics include:
– Classful, distance vector routing protocol
– Metric is Hop Count
– Does not support VLSM or discontiguous subnets
– Updates every 30 seconds
Rip messages are encapsulated in a UDP segment with
source and destination ports of 520
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Summary: Commands used by RIP
Command Command’s purpose
Rtr(config)#router rip Enables RIP routing process
Rtr(config-router)#network Associates a network with a RIP routing process
Rtr#debug ip rip used to view real time RIP routing updates
Rtr(config-router)#passive-interface fa0/0 Prevent RIP updates from going out an interface
Rtr(config-router)#default-information originate Used by RIP to propagate default routes
Rtr#show ip protocols Used to display timers used by RIP
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