Unicast IP Routing

Windows 2000 as a RIP for IP Router

Windows 2000 RIP for IP is RFC 1058 and 1723 compliant and has the following features:

Split horizon, poison reverse, and triggered updates convergence algorithms.
Ability to modify the announcement interval (default is 30 seconds).
Ability to modify the routing table entry timeout value (default is 3 minutes).
Ability to be a Silent RIP host.
Peer Filtering: Ability to accept or discard updates of announcements from specific routers identified by IP address.
Route Filtering: Ability to accept or discard updates of specific network IDs or from specific routers.
RIP Neighbors: Ability to unicast RIP announcements to specific routers to support nonbroadcast technologies like Frame Relay. A RIP neighbor is a RIP router that receives unicasted RIP announcements.
Ability to announce or accept default routes or host routes.

Note

When a Windows 2000 Router advertises a non-RIP learned route, it advertises it with a hop count of two. Non-RIP learned routes include static routes (even for directly attached networks), OSPF routes, and SNMP routes.

You can view the current RIP neighbors in the Routing and Remote Access snap-in by right-clicking the RIP routing protocol and clicking Show Neighbors.