Configuring RIPng in Gaia Portal

Important - In a ClusterClosed Two or more Security Gateways that work together in a redundant configuration - High Availability, or Load Sharing., you must configure all the Cluster Members in the same way.

  1. From the left navigation tree, click the Advanced Routing > RIPng.

  2. Optional: In the RIPng Global Settings section, configure the applicable settings and click Apply Global Settings.

    Parameter

    Description

    Update Interval

    The amount of time between regularly scheduled RIPng updates.

    To prevent synchronization of periodic updates, RIPng updates are actually sent at a time from the uniform distribution on the interval (0.5*"Update Interval value", 1.5*"Update Interval value").

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

    Range: 1-65535 seconds

    Default: 30 seconds

    Expire Interval

    Specifies how long in seconds a route is kept in the absence of a RIPng update message.

    Note - This value must be 6 times the Update Interval to allow for the possibility of lost updates.

    Range: 1-65535 seconds

    Default: 180 seconds

  3. In the RIPng Interfaces section, add the applicable interfaces.

    1. Click Add.

    2. In the Interface field, select the applicable interface.

    3. In the Metric field, enter the RIPng metric.

      The RIPng metric to add to routes that are sent with the specified interface(s).

      This is used to make other routers prefer other sources of RIPng routes over this router.

      A higher metric means routes appear more expensive.

      Setting the metric to 0 or default removes the stored value.

      • Range: None, or 1-16

      • Default: None (to configure the default value, delete the current value 1-16)

    4. Select the Virtual Address option.

      Applies only to VRRP Cluster.

      Makes RIPng run only on the VRRP Virtual IP address related to this interface.

      If this router is not a VRRP Master, then RIPng does not run, if this option is selected. It only runs on the VRRP Master.

      Make sure that VRRP is configured to accept connections to VRRP IP addresses.

      Note - You must use VRRP Monitored Circuit mode, when you configure VRRP to work with Virtual IP addresses, and when you configure Virtual IP support for a dynamic routing protocol, including RIP.

      Range: Selected, or Cleared

      Default: Cleared

    5. Click Save.