RIP protocol

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Daniel Tan

Does RIP protocol uses internet to transmit information among routers ? Pls advise.

Regads
Daniel
 
RIP version 2 transmits information on the multicast IP address of
233.0.0.9...
RIP version 1 transmits information on 255.255.255.255 ~ Broadcast.

As for the Internet (capital "I") - RIP does not transmit information among
routers, as RIP is terribly unefficient.
RIP is good for small networks with less than 10 hops between routers.

RIP transmits data on the intranet - you should keep RIP packets inside of
your local area network and out of your wide area network.

Depending on your question ~ The Internet could be defined as anything with
an IP address - in that case, yes, RIP does transmit on the internet.
In a practical sense, RIP does not make the internet run. :)

The internet mostly runs BGP4+ - A border gateway routing protocol.
 
Just to expand on Sartan's explanation, RIP is what is called an Internal
Gateway Protocol ( IGP ). It is designed for an intranet's use only as it
has several shortcomings in extremely large environments.

The Internet uses External Gateway Protocols ( EGP ), the most prevalent of
which is BGP4 as Sartan stated. These protocols are intended to handle very
large and complex routing tables. They normally have more shortcomings in
smaller environments.
 
RIP only will talk to other locally connected RIP routers ( meaning the
other routers on the same network segment have to run the RIP protocol as
well ).

Essentially you could accidentally throw a RIP router up on the Internet,
and so long as no other RIP router is running, you will get no route
updates, and just junk up that network segment with RIP broadcasts or
multicasts.
 
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