General Properties Of Rip - Hirschmann Power MICE User Manual

RIP

6.3 General Properties of RIP

The RFC 1058 from June 1988 specifies RIP version 1. Version 1 has the
following restrictions:
Use of broadcasts for protocol messages.
Does not support subnetworks/CIDR.
No authentification.
The standardization of RIP version 2 in the RFC 2453 in 1998 eliminates the
above restrictions.
RIP V2 sends its protocol messages as a multicast with the destination
address 224.0.0.9, and supports subnetwork masks and authentication.
However, the restrictions relating to the size of the network remain.
Advantages
Easy to implement
Easy to administrate
Table 9: Advantages and disadvantages of Vector Distance Routing
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6.3 General Properties of RIP
Disadvantages
Routing tables in large networks very
comprehensive
Routing information is distributed slow-
ly, because there are fixed sending in-
tervals. This applies in particular to
connections that have elapsed, since
the routing table only contains existing
paths.
Count-to-infinity
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