RIP v1 vs v2 : Detailed Comparison

Rashmi Bhardwaj | Blog,Protocol,Routing & Switching
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rip vs ripv2

RIP V1 vs V2

In this article, we will discuss RIP v1 and V2 difference. With the advent of technology, new features and updates started arriving in networking protocols. Same is what happened to RIP protocol (a distance vector routing protocol running Bellman-Ford algorithm). Initially, RIP was introduced under RFC 1058 and then came advanced version – RIP v2. RIP v2 had additional features which helped support customers and network administrators in deployment, offloaded hosts not participating in routing and enhanced security.

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Good thing is that RIPv2 facility full interoperability with RIP v1.

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In order to make the similarity between RIP v1 and v2 clear below table shares their commonality in terms of various routing-related parameters –

PARAMETERRIP v1 and RIP v2 similarity
Routing algorithm
Bellman-Ford
Routing protocol
Distance vector
Auto-Summarization
Supported
Path Metric
Hop count
Hop count limit
15
Convergence
slow
Administrative Distance
120
Protocol
UDP port 520
Paths to be load balanced
4 by default and 6 maximum
Timers
Update - 30
Invalid - 180
Hold down - 180
Flush - 240
Routing Entries in RIP Update packet
25

 

rip v1 vs rip v2

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Now that commonality between RIP v1 and v2 is clear, moving further, we will understand how both versions of RIP differ in reference to various features and parameters –

RIP V1 vs RIP V2

PARAMETERRIP v1RIP v2
RFC
RFC 1058
RFC 1721,1722 and 2453
Routing
Classful
Classless
Routing update address
Broadcast (255.255.255.255)
Multicast (224.0.0.9)
Subnet mask
Does not send subnet mask information with routing update
Sends subnet mask information with routing update
VLSM
Not Supported
Supported
CIDR
Not Supported
Supported
Authentication
Not Supported
Supported
Discontiguous network
Not Supported
Supported

difference between rip v1 and v2

 

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