RIP – Routing Information Protocol

• Member of: IGP & Distance Vector groups

• Primary Metric: Hop Count

• Max Hop Limit: 15

• There are 2 Versions: RIP1 (Classful, no longer used) and RIP2 (Classless)

• Convergence: Slow

• RIP does not take into consideration the bandwidth of the hops

• Administrative Distance: 120