Rip is a distance vector protocol
- How far and in which direction the route presents (no:of Hops between the source and destination)
Distance vector
protocol:
The
name distance vector is derived from the fact that routes are advertised as
vectors of (distance, direction), where distance is defined in terms of a
metric and direction is defined in terms of the next-hop router. For example,
"Destination A is a distance of 5 hops away, in the direction of next-hop
router X." As that statement implies, each router learns routes from its
neighboring routers' perspectives and then advertises the routes from its own
perspective. Because each router depends on its neighbors for information,
which the neighbors in turn may have learned from their neighbors, and so on,
distance vector routing is sometimes facetiously referred to as "routing
by rumor."
- In rip max hop count is 15
- Rip AD value is 120
- It runs on UDP
- Protocol number 520
