RIP Version 1 and RIP Version 2 Experiment

Revision 1: June 27, 2015

In this experiment, you will work with RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing protocols. You will use your CPT software. You will use
Cisco 2621XM routers and generic hubs in your CPT network.
Part 1:
In the first part of the experiment you will build a RIPv1 network. Your network configuration is shown in Figure 1
below.

Figure 1. RIP Network

Build the network shown in Figure 1 using the Network addresses shown in Table below. You will compute the value
of X as described in Appendix-A of this experiment.
Network Name
Network A
Network B
Network C
Network D
Network E
Network F
Network G
Network H

Network Address
192.168.X.0/24
192.168.X+1.0/24
192.168.X+2.0/24
192.168.X+3.0/24
192.168.X+4.0/24
192.168.X+5.0/24
192.168.X+6.0/24
192.168.X+7.0/24

Assign the addresses to the router interfaces as shown in table below:

Router Name
R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7

fa0/0 address
192.168.X.1/24
192.168.X+1.2/24
192.168.X+2.2/24
192.168.X+2.3/24
192.168.X+4.2/24
192.168.X+1.3/24
192.168.X+6.2/24

fa0/1 address
192.168.X+1.1/24
192.168.X+2.1/24
192.168.X+3.1/24
192.168.X+4.1/24
192.168.X+5.1/24
192.168.X+6.1/24
192.168.X+7.1/24

You will assign 10th addresses in their respective networks to the three PCs shown in Figure 1.

The routers in your network will be configured with enable and telnet passwords (hello and howdy as usual). You will
configure RIPv1 as your routing protocol in every router. Once you have completed the configuration, proceed to
testing your network as outlined in following steps.
Step 1: Test your network to see if you can ping every PC from every other PC in Figure 1. If there are issues, debug
your configuration and solve those issues and repeat Step 1 again.
Step 2: Then issue the command show ip route at each router to make sure that every router has a route for every
network (i.e. Network A Network H). Capture the output of this command. Examine it in detail and comment on
your observations (metrics, administrative distances etc.)
Step 3: Now you will test the use of some routing related Cisco commands. Issue show ip protocols command at
routers R2 and R7 and capture the results and examine and comment on those results.
Step 4: As the next step, you will use debug ip rip command. At router R2 issue the command debug ip rip and
capture the output. Comment on your observations. In order to negate this command you need use no debug ip
rip command.
Step 5: At this point save your CPT file under the name Lastname1_Lastname2_Lab3_Part1.pkt where Lastname1
and Lastname2 are the last names of the team members and then close your CPT file. Now you will test the
convergence time for RIPv1. Open the CPT file that you just have closed and immediately log into R5. Continuously
issue the command show ip route and watch the routing table grow in time (i.e. there will be more entries in the
table as time progresses due to convergence process explained in the class). Measure the total time elapsed until R5
learns about all the networks in Figure 1. Comment on the convergence of RIPv1 in your network.
Part 2:
In this part of the experiment you will build the same network as in Figure 1 but you will use RIPv2 with subnetted
addresses as shown in the table below. You will compute the values of X and Y as described in Appendix A and
Appendix B.
Network Name
Network A
Network B
Network C
Network D
Network E
Network F
Network G
Network H

Network Address
172.Y.X.0/24
172.Y.X+1.0/24
172.Y.X+2.0/24
172.Y.X+3.0/24
172.Y.X+4.0/24
172.Y.X+5.0/24
172.Y.X+6.0/24
172.Y.X+7.0/24

You will use the following interface addresses for the routers:
Router Name
R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7

fa0/0 address
172.Y.X.1/24
172.Y.X+1.2/24
172.Y.X+2.2/24
172.Y.X+2.3/24
172.Y.X+4.2/24
172.Y.X+1.3/24
172.Y.X+6.2/24

fa0/1 address
172.Y.X+1.1/24
172.Y.X+2.1/24
172.Y.X+3.1/24
172.Y.X+4.1/24
172.Y.X+5.1/24
172.Y.X+6.1/24
172.Y.X+7.1/24

As before, you will assign the 10th address in the range to three PCs shown in the figure. You will configure your
network as described. After your configuration is complete test your network following the steps described below.
Step 1: Test your network as in Part 1 to see if you can ping every PC from every other PC in Figure 1. If there are
issues, debug your configuration and solve those issues and repeat Step 1 again.
Step 2: Then issue the command show ip route at each router to make sure that every router has a route for every
network (i.e. Network A Network H) in Figure 1. Capture the output of this command, compare it the output from
Part 1 and comment on your observations.
Step 3: At this point save your CPT file under the name Lastname1_Lastname2_Lab3_Part2.pkt. Then close your CPT
file.
Step 4: Open your file in Step 3 as and test the convergence time as in Part 1 again for RIPv2 network. Did you
observe any change in the convergence time? Comment on your observations.
Step 5: Now you will configure some of the router interfaces as passive interfaces. You first need to decide which
router interfaces need to be passive. Then configure those interfaces as passive interfaces to hold down RIP
propagations. After configuring those interfaces, test your RIPv2 network to make sure all the routes are still learned.
Step 6: Now issue the command debug ip rip packet at one of the routers with a passive interface and capture the
output of this command. What did you find out?
At this point re-save your file under the name Lastname1_Lastname2_Lab3_Part2.pkt
Part 3:
In this part of the experiment, you will work with propagating the default route information in RIPv2.

Figure 2: RIP network with Default Route

As Figure 2 shows, RIPv2 network from Part 2 is now connected to the Internet via an ISP router. For the purpose of
this experiment, the Internet will be represented by 10.0.0.0/8 Class A network (note that this is a private IP
address but it will be treated as if it is a public IP address for the sake of this experiment). You will build The
Internet using a single hub network with the network address 10.0.0.0/8. You will assign the address 10.0.0.11/8 to
the Internet PC (Int-PC) and 10.0.0.1/8 address to fa0/0 interface of the ISP_Router. You will use 192.68.0.0/30
address for the serial link between R1 and ISP_Router (again a private IP address treated as if public). You will assign
the first usable address to ISP_Router and the second usable address to R1. You will make ISP router the DCE end
(clock source).
You will use default route at R1 router (i.e. use the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 at R1). You
will also need to have a static route at ISP router for the entire RIPv2 network. For this purpose you will first
summarize all the addresses used in RIPv2 network and then you will use this summary address in the static route
statement at the ISP router.
You will configure R1 router so that it will propagate the default route information to other RIPv2 routers.
Step 1: Explain the reasoning and computations you have used to determine the summary route used in ISP router.
Step 2: Check in each router in RIP network to see there is a default route learned from R1 by using show ip route
command. Comment on how default route is displayed in routing table.
Step 3: Issue a ping command from each PC in RIPv2 network to the Internet PC to make sure that all the routes are
functional.
At this point save your CPT file under the name Lastname1_Lastname2_Lab3_Part3.pkt. Then write an experimental
report using the report writing guidelines and submit your experimental report by due date using UHCL Blackboard
web site.

Submit your experimental report and all the necessary accompanying files by the due date using
Blackboard drop box. On the cover page of your report, you need to write each team members First
Name, Last Name and Student ID.
Do NOT forget to annotate your networks as described in annotation guidelines.

APPENDIX - A
How to calculate the value of X
You will determine the value X for this experiment as follows:
1- Select the student ID of the lab team member whose Last name appears first in alphabetical
ordering (e.g. 5555681).
2- Select the last three digits of this student ID (e.g. 681)
3- Divide the last three digits found in step 2 by 239 and determine the remainder (e.g. when you
divide 681 by 239, the remainder will be 203).
4- Now divide the remainder that you have found in step 3 by 8 and find the remainder of this
number (e.g. when 203 is divided by 8, the remainder will be 3).
5- Now subtract the remainder found in Step 4 from the remainder found in Step 3 (e.g. you subtract
3 from 203). The resulting number (e.g. 203 3 =200) is the value of X that you will be using in this
experiment.

APPENDIX - B
How to calculate the value of Y
You will determine the value Y for this experiment as follows:
1- Select the student ID of the lab team member whose Last name appears second in alphabetical
ordering (e.g. 5555681).
2- Select the last three digits of this student ID (e.g. 681)
3- Divide the last three digits found in step 2 by 16 and determine the remainder (e.g. when you
divide 681 by 16, the remainder will be 9).
4- Now add 16 to the number you found in Step 3 (e.g. 9 + 16=25).
5- The number you found in Step 4 will be the value of Y. (e.g. 25).