Parameter Description
Authentication Type Authentication can be used to ensure that routing information comes from a valid source.
Authentication Key | A simple password must be provided if authentication is enabled. (An |
| authentication string is case sensitive, and can be up to 16 characters.) |
Send Type | The protocol used for traffic sent out this port: |
| RIP1 Broadcast: Route information is broadcast to other routers on the network |
| using RIPv1. |
| RIP2 Broadcast: Route information is broadcast to other routers on the network |
| using RIPv2. |
| RIP2 Multicast: Route information is multicast to other routers on the network using |
| RIPv2. |
| Do Not Send: The switch will passively monitor route information advertised by |
| other routers attached to the network. |
Receive Type | The routing protocol messages accepted on this port includes RIP1, RIP2, |
| RIP1/RIP2, or Do Not Receive. |
Default Metric | A “metric” indicates the number of hops between the switch and the destination |
| network. |
| The “default metric” is used for the default route in RIP updates originated on this |
| interface. A value of zero indicates that no default route should be originated; in this |
| case, a default route via another router may be propagated. Range: |
Poison Reverse* | Directs routes back to an interface port from which they have been acquired, but |
| sets the distance vector metrics to infinity. |
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*This is a method of preventing routing information from looping back to the source. Note that Split Horizon is also enabled on this switch for this purpose. (See “6.2.6.1 RIP and
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