In my introductory post on RIP, I briefly talked about RIP Timers. It is quite easy to understand the timers but I do get confused sometimes when I have to debug some error quickly in a RIP network. I get confused easily between Invalid and Update timer. So today I am going to discuss briefly about how the timers work in RIP.
We will use the following topology for the explanation.
We will be using 4 routers connected as above. The interfaces connected and the their IP addresses are mentioned in the figure. Configuring RIP is…
