What is the difference between RIP and OSPF?

RIP works on Bellman Ford algorithm. OSPF works on Dijkstra algorithm. It is a Distance Vector protocol and it uses the distance or hops count to determine the transmission path. It is a link state protocol and it analyzes different sources like the speed, cost and path congestion while identifying the shortest path.

Is RIP routing still used?

RIP is a slow routing protocol compared to other IGP (Interior Gateway Protocols) like OSPF, EIGRP and IS-IS. Even though it’s not commonly used anymore, it is a still a great routing protocol to start with if you are new to networking.

Can RIP work with OSPF?

In any case, just running both RIP and OSPF is technically perfectly possible – they do not interoperate, though, so they will actually not care for each other, nor will they affect each other’s operation.

What is RIP protocol used for?

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance vector protocol that uses hop count as its primary metric. RIP defines how routers should share information when moving traffic among an interconnected group of local area networks (LANs).

Why do we use RIP in networking?

Can you redistribute RIP into BGP?

Configures the device to redistribute connected routes, learned static routes, OSPF routes, or BGP4 routes through RIP. The RIP router can then advertise these routes to RIP neighbors.

What are the drawbacks of RIP?

Disadvantages of RIP

  • Bandwidth utilization in RIP is very high as it broadcasts its updates every 30 seconds.
  • RIP supports only 15 hop count so a maximum of 16 routers can be configured in RIP.
  • Here the convergence rate is slow. It means that when any link goes down it takes a lot of time to choose alternate routes.

What is the problem of RIP?

The most important area where we find serious issues with RIP is with the basic function of the distance-vector algorithm described earlier in this section, and the way that messages are used to implement it. The are four main problems here: slow convergence, routing loops, “counting to infinity” and “small infinity”.