EnGenius Technologies ESR9855G manual RIP Routing Information Protocol

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RIP (Routing Information Protocol)

RIP enables the router to share routing information with other routers and hosts on the LAN.

￿Enable RIP: Enable RIP if the LAN has multiple routers or if the LAN has other hosts that listen for RIP messages, such as auto-IP devices or the Windows XP RIP Listener Service.

￿RIP Operating mode: This router supports both version 2 and version 1 of the RIP specification.

V1. Use if none of the routers supports Version 2.

V2 Broadcast. Use if some routers are capable of Version 2, but some are only capable of Version 1.

V2 Multicast. Use if this is the only rounter on the LAN or if all the routers support Version 2.

￿Router Metric: The additional cost of routing a packet through this router. The normal value for a simple network is 1. This metric is added to routes learned from other routers; it is not added to static or system routes.

￿Act as default router: Make this router the preferred destination for packets that are not otherwise destined.

￿RIP Password: This router supports the use of clear-text passwords in RIP version 2 messages. Only routers with the same RIP password can share routes via RIP. RIP passwords serve more as a mechanism to limit route sharing rather than as a security mechanism. You might use RIP passwords, for example, to prevent routes from one subnet from being seen by a router on another

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