Configuring RIP for FortiGate interfaces

RIP configuration

 

 

Password

Enter the password to be used for RIP version 2 authentication. The

 

password can be up to 16 characters long.

Mode

Defines the authentication used for RIP version 2 packets sent and received

 

by this interface. If you select Clear, the password is sent as plain text. If you

 

select MD5, the password is used to generate an MD5 hash.

 

MD5 only guarantees the authenticity of the update packet, not the

 

confidentiality of the routing information in the packet.

Metric

Changes the metric for routes sent by this interface. All routes sent from this

 

interface have this metric added to their current metric value. You can

 

change the interface metric to give a higher priority to an interface. For

 

example, if you have two interfaces that can be used to route packets to the

 

same destination, and you set the metric of one interface higher than the

 

other, the routes to the interface with the lower metric will seem to have a

 

lower cost. More traffic will use routes to the interface with the lower metric.

 

Metric can be from 1 to 16 with 16 equalling unreachable.

4Select OK to save the RIP configuration for the selected interface.

Figure 2: Example RIP configuration for an internal interface

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