Routing Information Protocol

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Routing Information Protocol is a distance vector protocol used for interior gateway routing which uses hop count as the sole metric of a path's cost.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: RIP
plural: Routing Information Protocols
possessive: Routing Information Protocol's
pluralpossessive: Routing Information Protocols'

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