Configuring RIP v2 (Exam Topic 4-G)

Configuring RIP v2 can be completed in a 3 easy steps
RIP just works its not the best protocol to use. I can see RIP being used in a very small environment. Even then why not use OSPFv2?
RIP will create a lot of noise advertising its outing table over and over again every 30 seconds.
RIP also uses hops as its only metric when determining routes.

Now that I've pointed out RIP flaws lets configure RIP v2

 

First to prove a point of hop only metric I will set the serial connection bandwidth between R2 and R1 to 1 KB

We'll start on R1 and work our way down. Now lets enable router RIP

Next will will specify that we're using version 2

 


Finally we will specify which network we would like to advertise

I will apply the same config and advertise the networks on each router
Now lets take a look at R1 to verify it has learned all of the networks advertised

Now lets do a traceroute from R1 to R4s0/0 interface

We see the route used is R2 fas 0/0 through its s0/0 interface to R4 s0/0 interface

RIP is extremely easy to setup, but I would recommend avoiding RIP in a WAN setup.