Configuring RIP Route Control 263
Configuring RIP Route 
Control
In complex networks, you need to configure advanced RIP features.
This section covers the following topics:
■ “Configuring an Additional Routing Metric” on page 263
■ “Configuring RIPv2 Route Summarization” on page 264
■ “Disabling Host Route Reception” on page 264
■ “Advertising a Default Route” on page 265
■ “Configuring Inbound/Outbound Route Filtering” on page 265
■ “Configuring a Priority for RIP” on page 266
■ “Configuring RIP Route Redistribution” on page 266
Before configuring RIP routing feature, complete the following tasks:
■ Configure an IP address for each interface, and make sure all neighboring 
routers are reachable to each other.
■ Configure RIP basic functions
Configuring an
Additional Routing
Metric
An additional routing metric can be added to the metric of an inbound or 
outbound RIP route.
The outbound additional metric is added to the metric of a sent route, the route’s 
metric in the routing table is not changed.
The inbound additional metric is added to the metric of a received route before 
the route is added into the routing table, so the route’s metric is changed.
Follow these steps to configure additional routing metrics:
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view  system-view -- 
Enter RIP view  rip [ process-id ] -- 
Specify a global RIP version  version { 1 | 2 } Optional
By default, if an interface has a RIP 
version specified, the version takes 
precedence over the global one. If 
no RIP version is specified for an 
interface, the interface can send 
RIPv1 broadcasts, and receive RIPv1 
broadcasts, unicasts, RIPv2 
broadcasts, multicasts and unicasts. 
Return to system view  Quit - 
Enter interface view  interface interface-type 
interface-number 
-- 
Specify a RIP version for the 
interface 
rip version { 1 | 2 
[ broadcast | multicast ]} 
Optional