RIP Configuration Command Reference

This command creates a text description stored in the configuration file for a configuration context.

The description command associates a text string with a configuration context to help identify the context in the configuration file.

The no form of the command removes any description string from the context.

This command administratively disables an entity. Downing an entity does not change, reset or remove any configuration settings or statistics. Many objects must be shutdown before they may be deleted.

The shutdown command administratively downs an entity. Administratively downing an entity changes the operational state of the entity to down and the operational state of any entities contained within the administratively down entity.

Unlike other commands and parameters where the default state will not be indicated in the configuration file, shutdown and no shutdown are always indicated in system generated configuration files.

The no form of the command puts an entity into the administratively enabled state.

This command creates the context to configure the RIP protocol instance.

When a RIP instance is created, the protocol is enabled by default. To start or suspend execution of the RIP protocol without affecting the configuration, use the [no] shutdown command.

The no form of the command deletes the RIP protocol instance removing all associated configuration parameters.

This command creates the context to configure the RIPng protocol instance.

When a RIPng instance is created, the protocol is enabled by default. To start or suspend execution of the RIP protocol without affecting the configuration, use the [no] shutdown command.

The no form of the command deletes the RIP protocol instance removing all associated configuration parameters.

This command sets the authentication password to be passed between RIP neighbors.

The authentication type and authentication key must match exactly for the RIP message to be considered authentic and processed.

The no form of the command removes the authentication password from the configuration and disables authentication.

This command sets the type of authentication to be used between RIP neighbors.

The type and password must match exactly for the RIP message to be considered authentic and processed.

The no form of the command removes the authentication type from the configuration and effectively disables authentication.

This command enables checking for zero values in fields specified to be zero by the RIPv1 and RIPv2 specifications.

The check-zero enable command enables checking of the mandatory zero fields in the RIPv1 and RIPv2 specifications and rejecting non-compliant RIP messages.

The check-zero disable command disables this check and allows the receipt of RIP messages even if the mandatory zero fields are non-zero.

This configuration parameter can be set at three levels: global level (applies to all groups and neighbor interfaces), group level (applies to all neighbor interfaces in the group) or neighbor level (only applies to the specified neighbor interface). The most specific value is used. In particular if no value is set (no check-zero), the setting from the less specific level is inherited by the lower level.

The no form of the command removes the check-zero command from the configuration.

This command specifies the export route policies used to determine which routes are exported to RIP.

If no export policy is specified, non-RIP routes will not be exported from the routing table manager to RIP. RIP-learned routes will be exported to RIP neighbors.

If multiple policy names are specified, the policies are evaluated in the order they are specified. The first policy that matches is applied. If multiple export commands are issued, the last command entered will override the previous command. A maximum of five policy names can be specified.

The no form of the command removes all policies from the configuration.

This command configures the maximum number of routes (prefixes) that can be exported into RIP from the route table.

The no form of the command removes the parameters from the configuration.

This command creates a context for configuring a RIP group of neighbor interfaces.

RIP groups are a way of logically associating RIP neighbor interfaces to facilitate a common configuration for RIP interfaces.

The no form of the command deletes the RIP neighbor interface group. Deleting the group will also remove the RIP configuration of all the neighbor interfaces currently assigned to this group.

This command configures import route policies to determine which routes are accepted from RIP neighbors. If no import policy is specified, RIP accepts all routes from configured RIP neighbors. Import policies can be used to limit or modify the routes accepted and their corresponding parameters and metrics.

If multiple policy names are specified, the policies are evaluated in the order they are specified. The first policy that matches is applied. If multiple import commands are issued, the last command entered will override the previous command. A maximum of five policy names can be specified.

The no form of the command removes all policies from the configuration.

This command configures the maximum number of routes per RIP update message.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command configures the metric added to routes received from a RIP neighbor.

When applying an export policy to a RIP configuration, the policy overrides the metric values determined through calculations involving the metric-in and metric-out values.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command configures the metric assigned to routes exported into RIP and advertised to RIP neighbors.

When applying an export policy to a RIP configuration, the policy overrides the metric values determined through calculations involving the metric-in and metric-out values.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command creates a context for configuring a RIP neighbor interface.

By default, interfaces are not activated in any interior gateway protocol, such as RIP, unless explicitly configured.

The no form of the command deletes the RIP interface configuration for this interface. The shutdown command in the config>router>rip>group group-name>neighbor ip-int-name context can be used to disable an interface without removing the configuration for the interface.

This command configures the preference for RIP routes.

A route can be learned by the router from different protocols in which case the costs are not comparable. When this occurs the preference is used to decide which route will be used.

Different protocols should not be configured with the same preference, if this occurs the tiebreaker is per the default preference table as defined in Table 3. If multiple routes are learned with an identical preference using the same protocol, the lowest cost route is used.

If multiple routes are learned with an identical preference using the same protocol and the costs (metrics) are equal, then the decision of what route to use is determined by the configuration of the ecmp in the config>router context.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command configures the types of RIP updates that will be accepted and processed.

If both or version-2 is specified, the RIP instance listens for and accepts packets sent to the broadcast and multicast (224.0.0.9) addresses.

If version-1 is specified, the router only listens for and accept packets sent to the broadcast address.

This control can be issued at the global, group or interface level. The default behavior is to accept and process both RIPv1 and RIPv2 messages.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command specifies the type of RIP messages sent to RIP neighbors.

If version-1 is specified, the router need only listen for and accept packets sent to the broadcast address.

This control can be issued at the global, group or interface level.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command specifies if RIPng are sent to RIP neighbors or not and what type of IPv6 address is to be used to deliver the messages.

This control can be issued at the global, group or interface level.

The no form of the command reverts to the default value.

This command enables the use of split-horizon.

RIP uses split-horizon with poison-reverse to protect from such problems as “counting to infinity”. Split-horizon with poison reverse means that routes learned from a neighbor through a given interface are advertised in updates out of the same interface but with a metric of 16 (infinity).

The split-horizon disable command enables split horizon without poison reverse. This allows the routes to be re-advertised on interfaces other than the interface that learned the route, with the advertised metric equaling an increment of the metric-in value.

This configuration parameter can be set at three levels: global level (applies to all groups and neighbor interfaces), group level (applies to all neighbor interfaces in the group) or neighbor level (only applies to the specified neighbor interface). The most specific value is used. In particular if no value is set (no split-horizon), the setting from the less specific level is inherited by the lower level.

The no form of the command disables split horizon command which allows the lower level to inherit the setting from an upper level.

This command configures values for the update, timeout and flush RIP timers.

The RIP update timer determines how often RIP updates are sent.

If the route is not updated by the time the RIP timeout timer expires, the route is declared invalid but is maintained in the RIP database.

The RIP flush timer determines how long a route is maintained in the RIP database after it has been declared invalid. Once the flush timer expires, the route is removed from the RIP database.

The no form of the command reverts to the default values.

This command configures the unicast IPv6 address that RIP and RIPng update messages will be sent to if the send command is set to send unicast.

Multiple unicast-address entries can be configured, in which case unicast messages will be sent to each configured unicast IPv6 address.

The no form of the command deletes the specified IPv6 unicast address from the configuration.