Setting RIP timers

You can change the RIP network convergence speed by adjusting the following RIP timers:

Update timer—Specifies the interval between route updates.
Timeout timer—Specifies the route aging time. If no update for a route is received within the aging time, the metric of the route is set to 16.
Suppress timer—Specifies how long a RIP route stays in suppressed state. When the metric of a route is 16, the route enters the suppressed state. A suppressed route can be replaced by an updated route that is received from the same neighbor before the suppress timer expires and has a metric less than 16.
Garbage-collect timer—Specifies the interval from when the metric of a route becomes 16 to when it is deleted from the routing table. RIP advertises the route with a metric of 16. If no update is announced for that route before the garbage-collect timer expires, the route is deleted from the routing table.

IMPORTANT:

To avoid unnecessary traffic or route flapping, configure identical RIP timer settings on RIP routers.

To set RIP timers:

Step	Command	Remarks
1. Enter system view.	system-view	N/A
2. Enter RIP view.	rip [ process-id ]	N/A
3. Set RIP timers.	timers { garbage-collect garbage-collect-value \| suppress suppress-value \| timeout timeout-value \| update update-value } *	By default: The garbage-collect timer is 120 seconds. The suppress timer is 120 seconds. The timeout timer is 180 seconds. The update timer is 30 seconds.

Step

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2. Enter RIP view.

rip [ process-id ]

N/A

3. Set RIP timers.

timers { garbage-collect garbage-collect-value | suppress suppress-value | timeout timeout-value | update update-value } *

By default:

The garbage-collect timer is 120 seconds.
The suppress timer is 120 seconds.
The timeout timer is 180 seconds.
The update timer is 30 seconds.

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