Routing Protocol Configuration

 

RIP Configuration

Routing Information Protocol

Written by:

Windy Garlic

 

RIP needs a connection between two or more routers. Here we are using a serial connection It is one way that routers are able to communicate. This is how you set it up.

Router 1:

This is the first router, its on the 172.16.0.0/(16) network. The router conventionally gets the first IP so we set the routers IP to: 172.16.0.1 because we have the netmask set to 255.255.0.0

We do that in the FastEthernet0/0 tab (If your router is plugged into the FA0/1 port, set the IP in that tab).

Then we set the IP for the serial to use. That needs its own IP, we set that in the Serial0/0/0 tab(again, if you have it plugged into the other port, set it there). I’ve set the IP to 10.1.1.1 that means all the other connected router will have to be on the same network.(The next routers serial IP will be set to 10.1.1.2)

Router 2:

This is the 172.17.0.0/(16) network. Note this is a completely separate private network.

As stated before, we set the Serial’s IP to 10.1.1.2

And the Router gets the first available IP, so we set it to 172.17.0.1

Next go into the CLI tab and type the following commands:

Router 1:

RouterA# RouterA#conf t RouterA(config)#router rip RouterA(config-router)#version 2 RouterA(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 RouterA(config-router)#network 10.0.0.0 RouterA(config-router)#no auto-summary

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Router 2:

RouterB# RouterB#conf t RouterB(config)#router rip RouterB(config-router)#version 2 RouterB(config-router)#network 10.0.0.0 RouterA(config-router)#no auto-summary RouterB(config-router)#end RouterB#show ip route

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Gateway of last resort is not set 10.0.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 10.1.1.0 is directly connected, Serial0/0/0 C 172.16.0.0/16 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0 R 172.17.0.0/16 [120/1] via 10.1.1.2, 00:00:08, Serial0/0/0 ^------- ***If you see the R youve done it correctly***

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A Successful ping from one network to another!