Admin Privilege - Rip Configuration - Dynamix UM-A User Manual

4.3.3.6 Admin Privilege – RIP Configuration
RIP (Routing Information Protocol) is a management protocol that ensures that all hosts in a particular
network share the same information about routing paths. In a RIP, a host computer will send its entire
routing table to another host computer every X seconds, where X is the supply interval. The receiving
host computer will in turn repeat the same process by sending the same information to another host
computer. The process is repeated until all host computers in a given network share the same routing
knowledge. There are several components to RIP, including the authenticator, supplier, and listener.
Authenticator: Authentication is only available for RIPv2. When it is disabled, RIPv2 messages
containing authentication entries are discarded. When it is enabled, all RIPv2 messages must have
proper authentication entries, and all RIPv2 messages without verified authentication entries and all
RIPv1 messages are automatically rejected.
Supplier: The RIP Supplier has two functions:
I. It transmits route updates over every RIP Supplier interface at the interval specified by
Supply Interval (see below).
II. It transmits route updates in response to specific requests from other routers.
Listener: The RIP Listener listens and processes all RIP messages it receives from other RIP
routers and updates the host routing tables accordingly. The RIP Listener is always enabled
when RIP is enabled. By default, RIP is disabled.
The announcement messages RIP sends are based on two configuration parameters: RIP
Version number and Multicast:
The RIP messages that can be received and processed are based on two configuration
parameters: RIP Version number and Multicast:
The RIP Configuration page allows you to set the configuration for the system wide
configuration of RIP. The actual RIP configuration is in the RIP Per Interface Configuration.
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