A doubt on router updates

hi,
in the case of rip ,while sending an update of aroute from router A to router B, does rip increments the hopcount on router A before it sends or increments the hopcount aftr it is received at router B..

thanx

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EdTheLad

RouterA will increment the hop count before sending.

tj123

thannx for the reply

tj123

hai...

are u sure that the hop count is incremented before it is send from router A, i came across a question where it asked " what happes to a distance vector metric as it is received on a router". the answer was that the metric gets incremented...

thanx

EdTheLad

Sorry,i checked a debug output and thaught it was added by the sender.Looking at the rfc for rip it states the receiver will add the cost of the link to the received update.

K_amisi

If i still remmemeber correctly the receiving router will increase the hop count.

tj123

hi,
i also checked the output of debug using RIP which showed the sender increasing the metric, bt when i checked it for igrp it was the reverse , the receiver was the one who incremented the metric..

a confusion still exists..

thanx..