routing information protocol

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routing information protocol - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Routing Information Protocol
  
     1. <networking> (RIP) A distance vector, as opposed to link state
     , routing protocol.  RIP is an Internet standard
     Interior Gateway Protocol defined in STD 34, RFC 1058
     and updated by RFC 1388.
  
     See also Open Shortest Path First.
  
     2. <networking> (RIP) A companion protocol to IPX for
     exchange of routing information in a Novell network.
     RIP has been partly superseded by NLSP.  It is not related
     to the Internet protocol of the same name.
  
     (1997-03-04)