R O U T I N G
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
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Figure 8-3
displays an example of the output that appears when you use
the
get route
command with the
ip_addr
option.
Figure 8-3: Get Route Command with ip_addr option Output
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R O U T I N G I N F O R M A T I O N P R O T O C O L ( R I P )
The Routing Information Protocol, or RIP, as it is more commonly called,
is one of the most enduring of all routing protocols. RIP is also one of the
more easily confused protocols because a variety of RIP-like routing
protocols proliferated, some of which even used the same name! RIP and
the myriad RIP-like protocols were based on the same set of algorithms
that use distance vectors to mathematically compare routes to identify
the best path to any given destination address. These algorithms
emerged from academic research that dates back to 1957.
Today's open standard version of RIP, sometimes referred to as IP RIP, is
formally defined in two documents: Request For Comments (RFC) 1058
and Internet Standard (STD) 56. As IP-based networks became both
more numerous and greater in size, it became apparent to the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) that RIP needed to be updated.
Consequently, the IETF released RFC 1388 in January 1993, which was
then superceded in November 1994 by RFC 1723, which describes RIP 2
(the second version of RIP). These RFCs described an extension of RIP's
capabilities but did not attempt to obsolete the previous version of RIP.
RIP 2 enabled RIP messages to carry more information, which permitted
the use of a simple authentication mechanism to secure table updates.
Any host that uses RIP is assumed to have interfaces to one or more
networks. These are referred to as its “directly-connected networks”. The
get route 192.168.65.0/24
Dest-Routes for <> (1 entries)
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C - Connected S - Static A - Auto-Exported I - Imported R - RIP P - Permanent
iB - IBGP eB - EBGP O - OSPF E1 - OSPF external type 1
E2 - OSPF external type 2
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IP-Prefix Interface Gateway P Distance Metri
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---192.168.65.0/24 eth0 0.0.0.0 C 0 0