RIP

• Stands for “Routing Information Protocol”

  • Some call it “Rest In Peace” ?

• Lots of scaling problems

• RIPv1 is classful, and officially obsolete

• RIPv2 is classless

  • has improvements over RIPv1
  • is not widely used in the Internet industry
    • Only use is at the internet edge, between dial aggregation devices which can only speak RIPv2 and the next layer of the network

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