Review Questions

1: Which three fields are new to the RIPv2 message format?
2: Besides the extensions defined by the three fields of question 1, what are the other two major changes from RIPv1?
3: What is the multicast address used by RIPv2? What is the advantage of multicasting messages over broadcasting them?
4: What is the purpose of the Route Tag field in the RIPv2 message?
5: What is the purpose of the Next Hop field?
6: What is the UDP port number used by RIPv2?
7: Which one feature must a routing protocol have to be a classless routing protocol?
8: Which one feature must a routing protocol have to use VLSM?
9: Which two types of authentication are available with Cisco's RIPv2? Are they both defined in RFC 1723?

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