tant that you understand the default administrative distance of each routing
protocol and the metrics used so that you can effectively troubleshoot and
maintain an internetwork.
count. The hop count for a network is simply the number of routers that a
packet must pass through to reach that network. The hop-count metric does
not take into account such things as the speed or reliability of a link, just the
number of hops. In this way, RIP is similar to the AppleTalk routing proto-
col of RTMP (Routing Table Maintenance Protocol). Novell's NetWare IPX
RIP uses ticks to determine the best path to a remote network. Ticks are cal-
culated as approximately
same location with the same tick count, then hops are used as a tiebreaker.
information) is not sent with the route updates as it is with classless routing
protocols. RIP cannot effectively work with classless routing protocols like
EIGRP and OSPF because of this reason. However, RIP version 2 sends pre-
fix information with the router updates and its routes can be redistributed
with OSPF and EIGRP, for example. To configure RIP version 2, you just
add the command version 2 under the router rip process command,
as shown below:
172.16.0.0/24 but are using subnets 172.16.30.0 and 172.16.40.0, you
would advertise 172.16.0.0, and the routing process would find and adver-
tise your subnets. However, we see many students type the network
172.16.30.0 as the network number under RIP; this command works
because the router will change it to 172.16.0.0 (the classful boundary) for