RIP Routing: Mandatory Commands Networking How-to

RIP Routing: Mandatory Commands

Router(config)#router rip	Enables RIP as a routing protocol
Router(config-router)#network w.x.y.z	w.x.y.z is the network number of the directly connected network you want to advertise

Note:

You need to advertise only the classful network number, not a subnet:

Router(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 

not

Router(config-router)#network 172.16.10.0 

If you advertise a subnet, you will not receive an error message, because the router will automatically convert the subnet to the classful network address.