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4.5.6.1.4 Configuring RIP
The Routing Information Protocol is used to specify how routers exchange routing table information. (See
“RIP and RIP-2 Dynamic Routing Protocols” on Chapter “Advanced Topics”.) When RIP is enabled on
this routing switch, it broadcasts RIP messages to all devices in the network every 30 seconds, and
updates its own routing table when RIP messages are received from other routers. RIP messages
contain both the IP address and a metric for each destination network it knows about, where the metric
indicates the number of hops from this device to the destination network.
You can use the following menu to specify authentication, the protocol used for sending or receiving
routing messages on this port, the default metric used in calculating the best path, and enable or disable
Poison Reverse.