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Nokia Network Voyager for IPSO 4.0 Reference Guide
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5. In the Add New OSPF Area text box, enter 
1
; then click Apply.
6. In the Add new address range: prefix text box for the backbone area, enter 
192.168.24.0.
7. In the Mask Length text box, enter
 24
; then click Apply.
8. Click 1 area in the drop-down list for e2; then click Apply. 
9. Click Save.
10. Initiate a Network Voyager session to Nokia Platform D. 
11. Click Config on the home page. 
12. Click the OSPF link in the Routing Configuration section. 
13. In the Add New OSPF Area text box, enter 1; then click Apply.
14. Click 1 area in the drop-down list for e3, then click Apply. 
15. Click Save.
RIP 
The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the oldest, and still widely used, interior 
gateway protocols (IGP). RIP uses only the number of hops between nodes to determine the cost 
of a route to a destination network and does not consider network congestion or link speed. 
Other shortcomings of RIP are that it can create excessive network traffic if there are a large 
number of routes and that it has a slow convergence time and is less secure than other IGPs, such 
as OSPF. 
Routers using RIP broadcast their routing tables on a periodic basis to other routers, whether or 
not the tables have changed. Each update contains paired values consisting of an IP network 
address and a distance to that network. The distance is expressed as an integer, the hop count 
metric
. Directly connected networks have a metric of 1. Networks reachable through one other 
router are two hops, and so on. The maximum number of hops in a RIP network is 15 and the 
protocol treats anything equal to or greater than 16 as unreachable.
RIP 2
The RIP version 2 protocol adds capabilities to RIP. Some of the most notable RIP 2 
enhancements follow.
Network Mask
The RIP 1 protocol assumes that all subnetworks of a given network have the same network 
mask. It uses this assumption to calculate the network masks for all routes received. This 
assumption prevents subnets with different network masks from being included in RIP packets. 
RIP 2 adds the ability to explicitly specify the network mask for each network in a packet.