CCNA Data Center DCICN 640-911 Official Cert Guide

RIP Concepts and Operation

The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) was the first commonly used IGP in the history of TCP/IP. Organizations used RIP inside their networks commonly in the 1980s, and into the 1990s. RIPv2, created in the mid-1990s, improved RIPv2, giving engineers an option for easy migration and co-existence to move from RIPv1 to the better RIPv2.

This second of four major sections of the chapter compares RIPv1 and RIPv2, while discussing a few of the core features that apply to both.