Huawei Quidway S6500 Series Operation Manual page 157

Operation Manual - Routing Protocol
Quidway S6500 Series Ethernet Switches
3.2.3 Configuring Unicast of the Message
RIP is a broadcast protocol. It exchanges routing information with non-broadcasting
networks in unicast mode.
Please perform the following configuration in RIP view.
Table 3-3 Configuring unicast of the message
Configure unicast of the message
Cancel unicast of the message
By default, RIP does not send any message to any unicast address.
Usually, this command is not recommended, because the opposite side does not need
to receive two same messages at a time. It should be noted that peer should also be
restricted by rip work, rip output, rip input and network.
3.2.4 Specifying RIP Version of the Interface
RIP has two versions, RIP-1 and RIP-2. You can specify the version of the RIP packet
processed by the interface.
RIP-1 broadcasts the packets. RIP-2 can transmit packets by both broadcast and
multicast. By default, multicast is adopted for transmitting packets. In RIP-2, the
multicast address is 224.0.0.9. The advantage of transmitting packets in the multicast
mode is that the hosts not operating RIP in the same network can avoid receiving RIP
broadcast packets. In addition, this mode can also make the hosts running RIP-1 avoid
incorrectly receiving and processing the routes with subnet mask in RIP-2. When an
interface is running RIP-2 broadcast, the RIP-1 packets can also be received.
Perform the following configuration in Interface view:
Table 3-4 Specifying RIP Version of the Interface
Specify the interface version as RIP-1
Specify the interface version as RIP-2
Restore the default RIP version running
on the interface
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Chapter 3 RIP Configuration
Command
peer ip-address
undo peer ip-address
Command
rip version 1
rip version 2 [ broadcast | multicast ]
undo rip version