Tuning And Optimizing The Ripng Network; Configuring Ripng Timers - HP 4800G Series Configuration Manual

Tuning and Optimizing the RIPng Network

This section describes how to tune and optimize the performance of the RIPng network as well as
applications under special network environments. Before tuning and optimizing the RIPng network,
complete the following tasks:
Configure a network layer address for each interface
Configure the basic RIPng functions
This section covers the following topics:

Configuring RIPng Timers

Configuring Split Horizon and Poison Reverse
Configuring Zero Field Check on RIPng Packets
Configuring the Maximum Number of Equal Cost Routes for Load Balancing
Configuring RIPng Timers
You can adjust RIPng timers to optimize the performance of the RIPng network.
Follow these steps to configure RIPng timers:
To do...
Enter system view
Enter RIPng view
Configure RIPng
timers
When adjusting RIPng timers, you should consider the network performance and perform unified
configurations on routers running RIPng to avoid unnecessary network traffic increase or route
oscillation.
Use the command...
system-view
ripng [ process-id ]
timers { garbage-collect
garbage-collect-value |
suppress suppress-value |
timeout timeout-value |
update update-value } *
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Remarks
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Optional.
The RIPng timers have the following
defaults:
30 seconds for the update timer
180 seconds for the timeout timer
120 seconds for the suppress timer
120 seconds for the garbage-collect
timer