Configure RIP

Configure general virtual router settings.
Configure general RIP configuration settings.
Select a virtual router (
Network
Virtual Routers
) and for the virtual router, select
RIP
.
Select
Enable
to enable the RIP protocol.
Select
Reject Default Route
if you do not want to learn any default routes through RIP. This is the recommended, default setting.
Clear
Reject Default Route
if you want to permit redistribution of default routes through RIP.
Configure interfaces for RIP.
On the
Interfaces
tab, select an interface in the Interface configuration section.
Select an already defined interface.
Select
Enable
.
Select
Advertise Default Route
to advertise a default route to RIP peers with the specified metric value.
(
Optional
) Select a profile from the
Auth Profile
list.
Select normal, passive or send-only from the
Mode
list.
(
Optional
) To enable BFD for RIP globally for the virtual router, select a
BFD
profile.
Click
OK
.
Configure RIP timers.
On the
Timers
tab, enter a value for
Interval Seconds (sec)
. This setting defines the length of the following RIP timer intervals in seconds (range is 1 to 60; default is 1).
Specify the
Update Intervals
to define the number of intervals between route update announcements (range is 1 to 3,600; default is 30).
Specify the
Expire Intervals
to define the number of intervals between the time that the route was last updated to its expiration (range is 1 to 3600; default is 120).
Specify the
Delete Intervals
to define the number of intervals between the time that the route expires to its deletion (range is 1 to 3,600; default is 180).
(
Optional
) Configure Auth Profiles.
By default, the firewall does not use RIP authentication for the exchange between RIP neighbors. Optionally, you can configure RIP authentication between RIP neighbors by either a simple password or MD5 authentication. MD5 authentication is recommended; it is more secure than a simple password.
Simple Password RIP authentication
Select
Auth Profiles
and
Add
a name for the authentication profile to authenticate RIP messages.
Select
Simple Password
as the
Password Type
.
Enter a simple password and then confirm.
MD5 RIP authentication
Select
Auth Profiles
and
Add
a name for the authentication profile to authenticate RIP messages.
Select
MD5
as the
Password Type
.
Add
one or more password entries, including:
Key-ID (range is 0 to 255)
Key
(
Optional
) Select
Preferred
status.
Click
OK
to specify the key to be used to authenticate outgoing message.
Click
OK
again in the Virtual Router - RIP Auth Profile dialog box.
Commit
your changes.