From the course: Cisco Networking Foundations: Switching and Routing

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RIP theory

RIP theory

From the course: Cisco Networking Foundations: Switching and Routing

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RIP theory

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- [Instructor] The routing protocol that we're going to be considering in this course is RIP. The Routing Information Protocol. And we're going to consider in this introductory course because it's one of the simpler routing protocols out there. It is older. You probably will not find it in large enterprise networks, but you might see it in some smaller networks out there because it is so easy to configure, and there are three different versions we want to consider. RIP version one, which we should definitely not be using today. RIP version two and RIPng or RIP next generation. Let's consider each one of these. Beginning with RIP version one. With version one, when a RIP speaking router sends out a network advertisement, it does it with a broadcast, which goes everywhere throughout a broadcast domain. That means that PCs and printers on all devices connected to a subnet are going to hear these…

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