RIP_Next Generation

IPv6 RIP functions include support for IPv6 addresses and prefixes, and the use of the all-RIP-routers
multicast group address FF02::9 as the destination address for RIP update messages.




Enabling the IPv6 RIP Process
Before configuring the router to run IPv6 RIP, globally enable IPv6 using the ipv6 unicast-routing
command in global configuration mode, and enable IPv6 on any interfaces on which IPv6 RIP is to be
enabled.

SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. ipv6 router rip <word>
4. maximum-paths number-paths
5. exit
6. interface type number
7. ipv6 rip name default-information {only | originate} [metric metric-value]

it is configured with IPv6 address 2003:15:15:15::1/64 on fastethernet 1/0, on enabling it joins three groups

    FF02::1

    FF02::2

    FF02::1:FF48:0

Router# configure terminal

Router(config)# ipv6 router rip process1

Router(config-router)# maximum-paths 1

Defines the maximum number of equal-cost routes that IPv6 RIP can support.

• The number-paths argument is an integer from 1 to 64. The default for RIP is four paths.

The notable exceptions are that RIP does not advertise about any link local addresses, nor does RIP advertise about the local host routes–routes with a /128 prefix length–created for each interface IPv6 address. In short, RIP advertises all routable subnets associated with the interface.