Windows 2000 as a RIP for IP Router

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Windows 2000 RIP for IP is RFC 1058 and 1723 compliant and has the following features:

  • Split horizon, poison reverse, and triggered updates convergence algorithms.

  • Ability to modify the announcement interval (default is 30 seconds).

  • Ability to modify the routing table entry timeout value (default is 3 minutes).

  • Ability to be a Silent RIP host.

  • Peer Filtering: Ability to accept or discard updates of announcements from specific routers identified by IP address.

  • Route Filtering: Ability to accept or discard updates of specific network IDs or from specific routers.

  • RIP Neighbors: Ability to unicast RIP announcements to specific routers to support nonbroadcast technologies like Frame Relay. A RIP neighbor is a RIP router that receives unicasted RIP announcements.

  • Ability to announce or accept default routes or host routes.

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When a Windows 2000 Router advertises a non-RIP learned route, it advertises it with a hop count of two. Non-RIP learned routes include static routes (even for directly attached networks), OSPF routes, and SNMP routes.

You can view the current RIP neighbors in the Routing and Remote Access snap-in by right-clicking the RIP routing protocol and clicking Show Neighbors .