CONFIGURING RIP AND RDISC
Two commonly used dynamic routing methods are available on Solaris to fill up routing tables: the Router Discovery Protocol (RDISC) and the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). RDISC is used to discover available routers on the networks. RDISC is run either in Host mode or in Router mode. If it is running in Host mode, it listens only to router broadcasts. If it is running in Router mode, it broadcasts messages on the network. RDISC uses the ICMP router discovery method. The in.rdisc daemon is used to support RDISC. RIP uses in.routed daemon and is started at the boot time. It is used to exchange routing information among hosts and routers. Both RIP and RDISC are standard TCP/IP protocols.
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