Routing Information Protocol
E519652
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the earliest distance-vector routing protocols used in IP networks, employing hop count as its routing metric to determine optimal paths between routers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Routing Information Protocol canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5421595 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Routing Information Protocol Context triple: [RFC 768, usedBy, Routing Information Protocol]
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A.
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol is a network protocol used in AppleTalk to exchange and update routing information between routers.
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B.
Internet Routing Registry (IRR)
The Internet Routing Registry (IRR) is a globally distributed database system used by network operators to register and validate routing policies and IP address announcements for more secure and reliable Internet routing.
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C.
Routing Area Working Group
The Routing Area Working Group is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) group responsible for developing and maintaining standards and guidelines related to Internet routing technologies and protocols.
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D.
RFC 2810
RFC 2810 is an Internet standards document that specifies the architecture and core concepts of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.
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E.
RFC 1452
RFC 1452 is an early Internet standards document that was later superseded by RFC 1901 as part of the evolution of network protocols.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Routing Information Protocol Target entity description: Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the earliest distance-vector routing protocols used in IP networks, employing hop count as its routing metric to determine optimal paths between routers.
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A.
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol is a network protocol used in AppleTalk to exchange and update routing information between routers.
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B.
Internet Routing Registry (IRR)
The Internet Routing Registry (IRR) is a globally distributed database system used by network operators to register and validate routing policies and IP address announcements for more secure and reliable Internet routing.
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C.
Routing Area Working Group
The Routing Area Working Group is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) group responsible for developing and maintaining standards and guidelines related to Internet routing technologies and protocols.
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D.
RFC 2810
RFC 2810 is an Internet standards document that specifies the architecture and core concepts of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.
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E.
RFC 1452
RFC 1452 is an early Internet standards document that was later superseded by RFC 1901 as part of the evolution of network protocols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distance-vector routing protocol
ⓘ
routing protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RIP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | IP networks ⓘ |
| doesNotConsiderMetric |
bandwidth
ⓘ
delay ⓘ load ⓘ reliability ⓘ |
| encodesRoutesIn | distance vectors ⓘ |
| hasLimitation |
count-to-infinity problem
ⓘ
maximum network diameter of 15 hops ⓘ slow convergence ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
RIP version 1
ⓘ
RIP version 2 ⓘ RIPng ⓘ |
| isDefinedFor |
classful routing (RIPv1)
ⓘ
classless routing (RIPv2, RIPng) ⓘ |
| isSupersededBy |
EIGRP
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IS-IS NERFINISHED ⓘ OSPF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metricMaximumHopCount | 15 ⓘ |
| operatesAtLayer | network layer ⓘ |
| RIPngSupports | IPv6 ⓘ |
| routingDecisionBasis | minimum hop count ⓘ |
| routingType | interior gateway protocol ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
RFC 1058
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RFC 1723 NERFINISHED ⓘ RFC 2080 NERFINISHED ⓘ RFC 2453 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsAuthentication | RIPv2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsAuthenticationType |
MD5
ⓘ
plain text password ⓘ |
| supportsCIDR | RIPv2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ |
| supportsVLSM | RIPv2 ⓘ |
| treatsHopCount16As | unreachable ⓘ |
| usesAlgorithm | Bellman-Ford algorithm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesBroadcastUpdates | RIPv1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesFlushTimer | 240 seconds ⓘ |
| usesHolddownTimer | 180 seconds ⓘ |
| usesMulticastAddress | 224.0.0.9 ⓘ |
| usesMulticastUpdates | RIPv2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesRouteInvalidTimer | 180 seconds ⓘ |
| usesRoutePoisoning | true ⓘ |
| usesRoutingMetric | hop count ⓘ |
| usesSplitHorizon | true ⓘ |
| usesSplitHorizonWithPoisonReverse | true ⓘ |
| usesTransportProtocol | UDP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTriggeredUpdates | true ⓘ |
| usesUDPPort |
520
ⓘ
521 ⓘ |
| usesUpdateInterval | 30 seconds ⓘ |
| usesUpdateMechanism | periodic routing updates ⓘ |
| wasWidelyUsedIn | small to medium-sized networks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Routing Information Protocol Description of subject: Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the earliest distance-vector routing protocols used in IP networks, employing hop count as its routing metric to determine optimal paths between routers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.