Routing Information Protocol - HP 200 Series Services And Applications

Route Type specifies whether the destination network is remote or
directly connected. Also, if the router is notified that a learned route
is no longer available, then the route type is marked invalid. The
route will remain in the table until the router is notified of another
valid route to the destination or the router is rebooted.
Route Learned indicates whether the route was statically learned
(configured) or learned dynamically by the Routing Information
Protocol (RIP).
Age indicates the number of seconds since the route was learned.
Interface is a number, assigned by the router, indicating the interface
through which the next hop is reached.
For more information on the IPX routing table, please refer to the operator's
guide for an HP router.
N o t e
While the IPX protocol uses the information in the routing table to deter-
mine where to deliver each packet, the IPX protocol does not gather the
information to create and maintain the routing table. That function is
performed by RIP. Alternatively, routes can be statically configured.

Routing Information Protocol

The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is the dynamic routing protocol
used in Novell IPX internetworks for gathering and maintaining routing infor-
mation. Novell RIP supports both request and response operations. RIP
requests are used by hosts to determine the network number of the network
that they are connected to or to determine the route to a specific network. A
router or another host can generate a response to a RIP request.
An IPX router periodically generates a RIP update message as an
unrequested response operation. A RIP update message contains all of the
internetwork topology information that the sending router has in its routing
database (table). When a router detects that a network is unavailable or that
its route to that network has changed, that information will be reflected in
its next RIP update message. HP routers transmit RIP update messages on
all IPX interfaces every 30 seconds. This transmission period is not configur-
able on HP routers. However, you can disable the generation of RIP update
messages on each interface.
Novell IPX Routing Service
Routing Information Protocol
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