User's Manual

in 180 seconds, the RIP of the other routers would set the distance to this router into infinity and delete
the corresponding information from route table.
RIP develops from initial RIPv1 to RIPv2 gradually. Compared with RIPv1, RIPv2 supports VLSM
(Variable Length Subnet Mask), simple plain text authentication, MD5 cryptograph authentication, CIDR
(Classless Inter-Domain Routing) and multicast.
TL-ER604W supports both RIPv1 version and RIPv2 version, thus you can configure the RIP version
based on the actual need to improve the network performance.
Choose the menu Advanced→Routing→RIP to load the following page.
Figure 3-49 RIP
The following items are displayed on this screen:
 General
Interface:
Displays the interfaces which has been physically connected or assigned
static IP.
Status:
Enable or disable RIP protocol.
RIP Version:
Select RIPv1 or RIPv2. RIPv2 supports multicast and broadcast.
Password
Authentication:
If RIPv2 is enabled, set the Password Authentication according to the actual
network situation, and
the password should not be more than 15
characters.
All Interfaces:
Here you can operate all the interfaces in bulk. All the interfaces will not
apply RIP if “Enable” option for All Interfaces is selected.
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