Configuring RIP - Gaia Portal

To configure RIP:

Click the Network Management > Network interfaces page.
Configure Ethernet Interfaces and assign an IP address to the interface.
Click the Advanced Routing > RIP page.
Optional: In the RIP Global Settings section:
1. Configure the RIP Update Interval and Expire Interval.
  These timers allows you to vary the frequency with which updates are sent and when routes expire.
2. Select Auto Summarization to aggregate and redistribute non-classful routes in RIP 1. Clear it to disable the option.
In the RIP Interfaces section, click Add.
The Add Interface window opens
Configure the RIP Interfaces.
Click Save.

Configuring RIP Global Settings

Option	Description
Update Interval	The amount of time, in seconds, between regularly scheduled RIP updates. To prevent synchronization of periodic updates, RIP updates are actually sent at a time from the uniform distribution on the interval (0.5T, 1.5T) where T is the Update Interval value. Note - Be careful when you set this parameter, because RIP has no protocol mechanism to detect misconfiguration. Range: 1-65535. Default: 30.
Expire Interval	The amount of time, in seconds, that must pass with no update for a given route before the route is considered to have timed out. This value must be 6 times the update interval before the network drops packets which contain an update. Range: 1-65535. Default: 180.
Auto Summarization	Automatically aggregates and redistributes non-classful RIP Version 1 into RIP. This applies only to RIP Version 1. If you do not select the Auto summarization field option, you must use route aggregation and route redistribution and do the aggregation and redistribution manually. Note - Be careful when you set this parameter, because RIP has no protocol mechanism to detect misconfiguration. Default: Selected.

Option

Description

Update Interval

The amount of time, in seconds, between regularly scheduled RIP updates. To prevent synchronization of periodic updates, RIP updates are actually sent at a time from the uniform distribution on the interval (0.5T, 1.5T) where T is the Update Interval value.

Note - Be careful when you set this parameter, because RIP has no protocol mechanism to detect misconfiguration.

Range: 1-65535.
Default: 30.

Expire Interval

The amount of time, in seconds, that must pass with no update for a given route before the route is considered to have timed out. This value must be 6 times the update interval before the network drops packets which contain an update.

Range: 1-65535.
Default: 180.

Auto Summarization

Automatically aggregates and redistributes non-classful RIP Version 1 into RIP. This applies only to RIP Version 1. If you do not select the Auto summarization field option, you must use route aggregation and route redistribution and do the aggregation and redistribution manually.

Note - Be careful when you set this parameter, because RIP has no protocol mechanism to detect misconfiguration.

Default: Selected.

Configuring RIP Interfaces Settings

Option	Description
Interface	The interface on which RIP is enabled.
Version	The version of RIP to run. If you enter version 2, the default is to send full version 2 packets on the RIP multicast address. Options: 1 or 2. Default: 1.
Metric	The RIP metric to add to routes that are sent with the specified interface(s). The default is zero. This is used to make other routers prefer other sources of RIP routes over this router. Range: 0-16. Default: 0.
Accept updates	Defines if RIP packets from other routers which use the interface are accepted or ignored. Ignoring an update may result in suboptimal routing. Default: Selected.
Send updates	Defines if RIP packets are sent through the interface. This causes the interface to be a passive RIP listener. Default: Selected
Virtual Address	Make RIP run only on the VRRP Virtual IP address related to this interface. If this router is not a VRRP Master then RIP does not run if this option is selected. It only runs on the VRRP Master. Note - You must use Monitored Circuit mode when you configure VRRP to work with virtual IPs, and when you configure virtual IP support for a dynamic routing protocol, including RIP. Default: Cleared.
Transport	Selecting Multicast specifies that RIP version 2 packets should be multicast on this interface. This is the default. Options: Broadcast/Multicast. Default: Multicast.
Authentication Type	The type of authentication scheme to use for the link. This option applies to rip version 2 only. In general, routers on a given link must agree on the authentication configuration in order to form neighbor adjacencies. This is used to guarantee that routing information is accepted only from trusted routers. None: There is no authentication scheme for the interface to accept routing information from neighboring routers. Simple: Implement a simple authentication scheme for the interface to accept routing information from neighboring routers. Enter the Simple Password, from 1 to 16 characters. Must contain alphanumeric characters only. MD5: Implement an authentication scheme that uses an MD5 algorithm for the interface to accept routing information from neighboring routers. Enter the password. To ensure interoperability with Cisco routers running RIP MD5 authentication, enable Cisco Compatibility. By default, RIP MD5 is set to conform to the Check Point standard, and not for Cisco compatibility. Options: None/Simple/MD5. Default: None.