3Com S7906E Configuration Manual page 617

Figure 1-4 Network diagram for RIP version configuration
Configuration procedure
1) Configure an IP address for each interface (Omitted)
2) Configure basic RIP functions
# Configure Switch A.
[SwitchA] rip
[SwitchA-rip-1] network 192.168.1.0
[SwitchA-rip-1] network 172.16.0.0
[SwitchA-rip-1] network 172.17.0.0
# Configure Switch B.
[SwitchB] rip
[SwitchB-rip-1] network 192.168.1.0
[SwitchB-rip-1] network 10.0.0.0
# Display the RIP routing table of Switch A.
[SwitchA] display rip 1 route
Route Flags: R - RIP, T - TRIP
P - Permanent, A - Aging, S - Suppressed, G - Garbage-collect
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peer 192.168.1.2
Destination/Mask
10.0.0.0/8
From the routing table, you can find that RIPv1 uses a natural mask.
3) Configure RIP version
# Configure RIPv2 on Switch A.
[SwitchA] rip
[SwitchA-rip-1] version 2
[SwitchA-rip-1] undo summary
# Configure RIPv2 on Switch B.
[SwitchB] rip
[SwitchB-rip-1] version 2
[SwitchB-rip-1] undo summary
# Display the RIP routing table on Switch A.
[SwitchA] display rip 1 route
Route Flags: R - RIP, T - TRIP
P - Permanent, A - Aging, S - Suppressed, G - Garbage-collect
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
on Vlan-interface100
Nexthop
192.168.1.2
Cost Tag Flags
1 0 RA
1-19
Sec
11