February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
387 pages
7h 36m
English
Most RIP implementations have implemented measures to counteract the count to infinity problem. One change simply eliminates the 30-second timer, and when a router has a routing update to send, it sends it immediately. Of course, this immediate update does not solve the problem, but it does speed up the time to reach convergence.
Another method is called split horizon. The idea behind this operation is based on the commonsense notion that it makes no sense for a router to advertise addresses though the interface from which it received the initial advertisement. In Figure 5-7, R1 would not receive advertisements from R2 or R3 about H1. That is, R2 and R3 cannot advertise H1 on their interfaces, labeled 1 in ...
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