RIP Interview Questions

•  What is Route Poisoning?
•  What is Split Horizon ?
•  Utilizing RIP, what is the limit when it comes to number of hops?
•  Mulitcast address of RIP v2 ?
•  Administristative distance of RIP ?
•  Can we use RIP in a scenario having more than 15 routers ?
•  What is the difference between RIP and RIPng?
•  What is the multicast address that Rip v2 uses?
•  What are the four timers in RIP?
•  What is the difference between RIPV1 & RIPV2?
•  Explain Load-Balancing in RIP?
•  Explain Split Horizon?
•  What is route poisoning?
•  How do you stop RIP updates from propagating out an interface on a router?
•  What is the administrative distance of RIP?
•  How do we configure RIP? Specify the commands.
•  If a Rip v2 router advertise it’s route, would it be received by all the devices on the network?
•  Which transport layer protocol does RIP use and the associated port number?
•  If a static route and a Rip learnt route is available on a router which entry would be chosen by the      router to forward the packet?
• What is the major benefit of dynamic routing protocol like RIP over Static route?
• Can a subnet mask information be stored in a Rip v1 packet?
• Is a subnet mask field available in a Rip v2 packet?