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Friday, 15 June 2018

Routing Information Protocol

Hi everyone on today we are going to learn about RIP that is routing information protocol. The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols which employ the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents routing loops by implementing a limit on the number of hops allowed in a path from source to destination.

RIP is an good example of distance vector routing protocolRIP is based on the number of hop counts. RIP is good for small networks because it allows only 15 hops in a network. In other words we can say that, if a packet is sent by the RIP protocol then it is discarded after 15 hops.

RIP used to do a modified hop count as a way to determine network distance. (Modified reflects the fact that network engineers can assign paths a higher cost). Other routing protocols push less information of their own onto the network, while RIP pushes its whole routing table every 30 seconds.

What is meant by hop count that we have seen on above sentence ?
Data packets that pass through bridges, routers and gateways as they travel between source and destination. Each time packets are passed to the next network device, a hop occurs. The hop count refers to the number of intermediate devices through which data must pass between source and destination.

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