Specifying a RIP neighbor

Typically RIP messages are sent in broadcast or multicast. To enable RIP on a link that does not support broadcast or multicast, you must manually specify RIP neighbors.

Follow these guidelines when you specify a RIP neighbor:

To specify a RIP neighbor:

Step

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2. Enter RIP view.

rip [ process-id ]

N/A

3. Specify a RIP neighbor.

peer ip-address

By default, RIP does not unicast updates to any peer.

4. Disable source IP address check on inbound RIP updates

undo validate-source-address

By default, source IP address check on inbound RIP updates is enabled.