Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Parameters

Last Updated

  • 2018-06-12

Available Formats

RIP Commands

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not defined

Reference

  • RFC 1723: RIP Version 2 - Carrying Additional Information

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
0 Invalid
1 Request RFC 1058
2 Response RFC 1058
3 TraceOn RFC 1058
4 TraceOff RFC 1058
5 Reserved RFC 1058
6 Triggered Request RFC 1582 There are widely deployed implementations that don't support Triggered UDP that use value 6 = "Poll Entry" (undocumented)
7 Triggered Response RFC 1582
8 Triggered Acknowledgement RFC 1582
9 Update Request RFC 2091
10 Update Response RFC 2091
11 Update Acknowledge RFC 2091
12-254 Unassigned

RIP Update Headers

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not Defined

Reference

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
0 must be discarded RFC 1058
1 version 1 RFC 1058
2 version 2 RFC 2453
3-254 Unassigned

RIP Address Family Identifiers

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not defined

Reference

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
0 assigned but, unspecified. Associated full route table exchange RFC 1058
1 Unassigned
2 IP RFC 1058
3-65534 Unassigned
65535 Authentication present RFC 1388 This is represented in hex as 0xFFFF in Section 3.1

RIP Authentication Type

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not defined

Reference

  • RFC 1388: RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
0 none
1 Authentication Trailer RFC 4822 Only used with Cryptographic Hash Function
2 Plain-text password RFC 1388
3 Cryptographic Hash Function RFC 4822 Requires Authentication Trailer
4-65534 Unassigned

RIPNG Commands

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not defined

Reference

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
1 Request RFC 2080
2 Response RFC 2080
3-255 Unassigned

RIPNG Update Headers

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Not defined

Reference

Available Formats

Value Description Reference Notes
0 Unassigned Must be discarded
1 Version 1 RFC 2080
2-254 Unassigned