Implement RIP on Packet Tracer for a network topology with three Cisco routers

The routing information protocol is an industry-standard distance vector routing protocol available to all vendors. It is one of the most popular dynamic routing protocols, howbeit, its limitations. In this Lab, I will share with us on how to implement RIP on Packet Tracer  for a network topology with three Cisco routers.

Before I proceed to the configuration proper for this lab, Let’s look at a few things about RIP worth committing to memory.

• RIP is a distance vector routing protocol
• It has a default administrative distance of 120
• RIP can go a maximum hop of 15
• It uses hop counts to determine the shortest part to a remote network
• RIP has no support for classless addressing and variable length subnetmask (VLSM). RIPv2 does.

Network Topology

How to configure RIP on Packet Tracer for a network topology of three routers

The imlementation of this lab involves entering the below codes on all three routers, starting from Router0.

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Router0

Router>en
Router#conf t
Router(config)#hostname Router0
Router0(config)#int s0/3/0
Router0(config-if)#ip add 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.252
Router0(config-if)#no shut
Router0(config-if)#desc connection to Router1
Router0(config-if)#int f0/0
Router0(config-if)#ip add 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
Router0(config-if)#no shut
Router0(config-if)#desc connection to LAN
Router0(config-if)#exit
Router0(config)#router RIP
Router0(config-router)#netw 192.168.0.0
Router0(config-router)#netw 192.168.3.0
Router0(config-router)#no auto
Router0(config-router)#exit
Router0(config)#exit
Router0#copy run start

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Router1

Router>en
Router#conf t
Router(config)#hostname Router1
Router1(config)#int s0/3/0
Router1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router1(config-if)#ip add 192.168.3.2 255.255.255.252
Router1(config-if)#no shut
Router1(config-if)#desc connection to Router0
Router1(config-if)#int s0/2/0
Router1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router1(config-if)#ip add 192.168.4.1 255.255.255.252
Router1(config-if)#no shut
Router1(config-if)#desc connection to Router2
Router1(config-if)#int f0/0
Router1(config-if)#ip add 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router1(config-if)#no shut
Router1(config-if)#desc connection to LAN
Router1(config-if)#exit
Router1(config)#router RIP
Router1(config-router)#netw 192.168.1.0
Router1(config-router)#netw 192.168.3.0
Router1(config-router)#netw 192.168.4.0
Router1(config-router)#no auto
Router1(config-router)#exit
Router1(config)#exit
Router1#copy run start

Router2

Router>en
Router#conf t
Router(config)#hostname Router0
Router2(config)#int s0/3/0
Router2(config-if)#ip add 192.168.4.2 255.255.255.252
Router2(config-if)#no shut
Router2(config-if)#desc connection to Router1
Router2(config-if)#int f0/0
Router2(config-if)#ip add 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
Router2(config-if)#no shut
Router2(config-if)#desc connection to LAN
Router2(config-if)#exit
Router2(config)#router RIP
Router2(config-router)#netw 192.168.4.0
Router2(config-router)#netw 192.168.2.0
Router2(config-router)#no auto
Router2(config-router)#exit
Router2(config)#exit
Router2#copy run start

Verification

To verify the working of the lab, we need to confirm that we are learning all routes via RIP. To do this, we need to use #show ip route command. See results from Router0:

From Router0, we can see that networks 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, and 192.168.4.0/24 are all being learned via RIP with default administrative distance of 120 and the hop count for network 192.168.2.0/24 recorded as 2. This is because network 192.168.2.0/24 is two routers away from Router0. Let’s run a ping test to those networks and see if it will be successful. See output below:

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