HP MSR2000/3000/4000 Router Series Layer 3 - IP Routing Configuration Guide

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Configuring RIPng
RIP next generation (RIPng) is an extension of RIP-2 for support of IPv6. Most RIP concepts are applicable
to RIPng.
Overview
RIPng is a distance vector routing protocol. It employs UDP to exchange route information through port
521. RIPng uses a hop count to measure the distance to a destination. The hop count is the metric or cost.
The hop count from a router to a directly connected network is 0. The hop count between two directly
connected routers is 1. When the hop count is greater than or equal to 16, the destination network or host
is unreachable.
By default, the routing update is sent every 30 seconds. If the router receives no routing updates from a
neighbor within 180 seconds, the routes learned from the neighbor are considered unreachable. If no
routing update is received within another 240 seconds, the router removes these routes from the routing
table.
RIPng for IPv6 has the following differences from RIP:
• UDP port number—RIPng uses UDP port 521 to send and receive routing information.
• Multicast address—RIPng uses FF02::9 as the link-local-router multicast address.
• Destination Prefix—128-bit destination address prefix.
• Next hop—128-bit IPv6 address.
• Source address—RIPng uses FE80::/10 as the link-local source address.
RIPng route entries
RIPng stores routing entries in a database. Each routing entry contains the following elements:
• Destination address—IPv6 address of a destination host or a network.
• Next hop address—IPv6 address of the next hop.
• Egress interface—Egress interface of the route.
• Metric—Cost from the local router to the destination.
• Route time—Time elapsed since the last update. The time is reset to 0 every time the routing entry
is updated.
• Route tag—Used for route control. For more information, see "Configuring routing policies."
RIPng packets
RIPng uses request and response packets to exchange routing information as follows:
1. When RIPng starts or needs to update some routing entries, it sends a multicast request packet to
neighbors.