RIP

Description

This indicates an attempt to use the RIP protocol.
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is a distance-vector routing protocol which uses the hop count as a routing metric. It fixes the max hops allowed for RIP to 15. It uses UDP as its transport protocol with the default port 520.

Affected Products

RIP

Impact

Unexpected network communication

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable

Default Ports

• UDP/520

References

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1058
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1388
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1723