508 Configuring Routing
RIP Configuration
Use the RIP Configuration
page to enable and configure or disable RIP in Global mode. To display the
page, click Routing > RIP > Configuration in the tree view.
Figure 9-28. RIP Configuration
The RIP Configuration page contains the following fields:
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RIP Admin Mode
— Select Enable or Disable from the drop-down menu. If you select Enable, RIP is
enabled for the switch. The default is Disable.
•
Split Horizon Mode
— Select None, Simple, or Poison Reverse from the drop-down menu. The
default is Simple. Split horizon is a technique for avoiding problems caused by including routes in
updates sent to the router from which the route was originally learned. The options are:
–
None
— No special processing for this case.
–
Simple
— A route is not included in updates sent to the router from which it was learned .
–
Poison Reve rse
— A route is included in updates sent to the router from which it was learned, but
the metric is set to infinity.
•
Auto Summary Mode
— Select Enable or Disable from the drop-down menu. If you select Ena ble,
groups of adjacent routes are summarized into single entries, in order to reduce the total number of
entries. The default is Enable.