Summary
RIP was a highly successful, simple, and easy-to-use routing protocol that found great acceptance within small networks and autonomous systems. Over time, RIP began to experience the technological obsolescence that inevitably comes with the passage of decades. RIP-2 was designed as an update to RIP that would enable its tremendous embedded base a graceful way to support new networking features without the pain and suffering that would otherwise accompany a routing protocol migration.
RIP-2 was intended as a means of staving off a forced migration to a more complex, link-state protocol (such as OSPF) in smaller networked environments. This new protocol offered support for many new features, including subnet masking, but retained many ...
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