LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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Configuring the Routing Information Protocol

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Authentication Type – Specifies the type of authentication required

for exchanging RIPv2 protocol messages. (Default: No Authentication)

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No Authentication: No authentication is required.

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Simple Password: Requires the interface to exchange routing

information with other routers based on an authorized password.

(Note that authentication only applies to RIPv2.)

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MD5: Message Digest 5 (MD5) authentication.
MD5 is a one-way hash algorithm is that takes the authentication

key and produces a 128 bit message digest or “fingerprint.” This

makes it computationally infeasible to produce two messages
having the same message digest, or to produce any message

having a given pre-specified target message digest.

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Authentication Key – Specifies the key to use for authenticating

RIPv2 packets. For authentication to function properly, both the

sending and receiving interface must use the same password.

(Range: 1-16 characters, case sensitive)

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Instability Prevention – Specifies the method used to reduce the

convergence time when the network topology changes, and to prevent

RIP protocol messages from looping back to the source router.

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Split Horizon – This method never propagate routes back to an

interface from which they have been acquired.

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Poison Reverse – This method propagates routes back to an

interface from which they have been acquired, but sets the

distance-vector metrics to infinity. This provides faster

convergence. (This is the default setting.)

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None – No loopback prevention method is employed. If a loop

occurs without using any prevention method, the hop count for a

route may be gradually incremented to infinity (that is, 16) before

the route is deemed unreachable.

NTERFACE

To network interface settings for RIP:

Click Routing Protocol, RIP, Interface.

Select Add from the Action list.

Select a Layer 3 VLAN interface to participate in RIP. Select the RIP
protocol message types that will be received and sent. Select the RIP

authentication method and password. And then set the loopback

prevention method.

Click Apply.