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| Description: | Routing Internet Protocol. A rather poor protocol for exchanging routing information across routers. It is based on 'broadcasts', so that non-routing hosts can receive packets and update their routing tables accordingly. RIP is considered deprecated but still in use on UNIX systems. RIP original definition is in RFC 1058 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1058.txt. It is made obsolete by RIP2, whose latest definition is in RFC 2453 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2453.txt. |