timers
Use timers to set RIPng timers.
Use undo timers to restore the default.
Syntax
timers { garbage-collect garbage-collect-value | suppress suppress-value | timeout timeout-value | update update-value } *
undo timers { garbage-collect | suppress | timeout | update } *
Default
The garbage-collect timer is 120 seconds, the suppress timer is 120 seconds, the timeout timer is 180 seconds, and the update timer is 30 seconds.
Views
RIPng view
Predefines user roles
network-admin
Parameters
garbage-collect-value: Sets the garbage-collect timer in the range of 1 to 86400 seconds.
suppress-value: Sets the suppress timer in the range of 0 to 86400 seconds.
timeout-value: Sets the timeout timer in the range of 1 to 86400 seconds.
update-value: Sets the update timer in the range of 1 to 86400 seconds.
Usage guidelines
RIPng has the following timers:
Update timer—Interval between update messages.
Timeout timer—Route aging time. If no update for a route is received before the timer expires, RIPng sets the metric of the route to 16.
Suppress timer—How long a RIPng route stays in suppressed state. When the metric of a route becomes 16, the route enters the suppressed state. If RIPng receives an update for the route from the same neighbor and the route in the update has a metric less than 16, RIPng uses the route to replace the suppressed route.
Garbage-collect timer—Interval from when the metric of a route becomes 16 to when it is deleted from the routing table. During the garbage-collect timer length, RIPng advertises the route with a metric of 16. If no update is announced for that route before the garbage-collect timer expires, RIPng deletes the route from the routing table.
As a best practice, do not change the default values of these timers.
The timer lengths must be kept consistent on all routers in the network.
Examples
# Set the update, timeout, suppress, and garbage-collect timers to 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 15 seconds, and 30 seconds.
<Sysname> system-view [Sysname] ripng 1 [Sysname-ripng-1] timers update 5 timeout 15 suppress 15 garbage-collect 30