RIPng Overview

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is an IP route exchange protocol that uses a distance vector (a number representing a distance) to measure the cost of a given route. RIP uses a hop count as its cost or metric.

IPv6 RIP, known as Routing Information Protocol Next Generation or RIPng, functions similarly to IPv4 RIP version 2. RIPng supports IPv6 addresses and prefixes.

RIPng maintains a Routing Information Database (RIB), which is a local route table. The local RIB contains the lowest-cost IPv6 routes learned from other RIP routers. RIPng attempts to add routes from its local RIB into the main IPv6 route table.