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IP address of the next router
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Timer that tracks the amount of time since the entry was last updated
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The router exchanges an update message with each neighbor every 30 seconds (default value), or when
there is a change to the overall routed topology (also called triggered updates). If a router does not receive
an update message from its neighbor within the route timeout period (180 seconds by default), the
router assumes the connection between it and its neighbor is no longer available.

Split Horizon

Split horizon is a scheme for avoiding problems caused by including routes in updates sent to the
router from which the route was learned. Split horizon omits routes learned from a neighbor in updates
sent to that neighbor.

Poison Reverse

Like split horizon, poison reverse is a scheme for eliminating the possibility of loops in the routed
topology. In this case, a router advertises a route over the same interface that supplied the route, but the
route uses a hop count of 16, which defines that router as unreachable.

Triggered Updates

Triggered updates occur whenever a router changes the metric for a route. The router is required to
send an update message immediately, even if it is not yet time for a regular update message to be sent.
This generally results in faster convergence, but may also result in more RIP-related traffic.

Route Advertisement of VLANs

Virtual LANs (VLANs) that are configured with an IP address but are configured to not route IP or are
not configured to run RIP, do not have their subnets advertised by RIP. RIP advertises only those
VLANs that are configured with an IP address, are configured to route IP, and run RIP.

RIP Version 1 Versus RIP Version 2

A new version of RIP, called RIP version 2, expands the functionality of RIP version 1 to include the
following:
Variable-length subnet masks (VLSMs).
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Support for next-hop addresses, which allows for optimization of routes in certain environments.
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Multicasting.
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RIP version 2 packets can be multicast instead of being broadcast, reducing the load on hosts that do
not support routing protocols.
NOTE
If you are using RIP with supernetting/Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), you must use RIPv2 only.
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