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can use it in the authentication-key statement instead of the password itself. This is<br />

one way to minimize the number of people who see the actual password.<br />

aviva@RouterB# set rip authentication-key "$9$CuWOtBIhSrc8XcS24JGiH"<br />

10.5 Routing RIP Traffic over Faster Interfaces<br />

Problem<br />

You want to force RIP to route traffic over a faster physical link even if using that<br />

link has more hops than a slower link.<br />

Solution<br />

Use the following command to make the path through the slower interface less<br />

preferable:<br />

[edit protocols rip]<br />

aviva@RouterA# set group alpha-rip-group neighbor se-0/0/3.0 metric-in 2<br />

<strong>Discussion</strong><br />

By default, each directly connected neighbor in a RIP network has a metric value of<br />

1. If there are two equal-cost routes to a destination, RIP considers them equivalent<br />

and uses one or the other at any given time. You cannot control RIP’s choice of<br />

paths. If all the links on your network are the same speed, the path taken by RIP traffic<br />

is not an issue and you can leave the default metric values unchanged. However, if<br />

one of the paths includes a slower or faster link, you probably want to route the RIP<br />

traffic along the faster path. In our example, all routers are linked with faster Ethernet<br />

interfaces except for one, which has a slower serial link (see Figure 10-1).<br />

Serial<br />

Subnet 10.0.21.0/24<br />

RouterB<br />

Fast Ethernet<br />

Subnet 10.0.22.0/24<br />

RouterC<br />

Fast Ethernet<br />

Subnet 10.0.29.0/24<br />

RouterA<br />

lo0:192.168.16.1<br />

RouterD<br />

lo0:192.168.24.1<br />

Fast Ethernet<br />

Subnet 10.0.15.0/24<br />

RouterE<br />

Fast Ethernet<br />

Subnet 10.0.13.0/24<br />

RouterF<br />

Fast Ethernet<br />

Subnet 10.0.31.0/24<br />

Figure 10-1. Topology for controlling RIP traffic<br />

If you are controlling the path taken by RIP traffic from RouterA to RouterD, you<br />

want to make sure it never goes through RouterBbut always goes through RouterE<br />

Routing RIP Traffic over Faster Interfaces | 343<br />

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