From the last exercise of this CCNA Tutorial, we had configured dynamic routing using RIP (Routing Information Protocol) version 1. It’s quite easy to configure cisco router devices but it can only be used for routing with classfull ip address networks.

The next version of RIP (Routing Information Protocol) is the version 2. The difference of using RIPv2 is its ability to route ip address with classless networks. Therefore, when routing using RIP in a subnetted networks, version 2 must be used.

Take note that with RIP, hop count method is used. Meaning, measurement can be determine based on how many routers a packet must travel from one point going to another.

Lets have a look in this another example

Configure Dynamic Routing with RIPv2 Video Tutorial

Steps on how to configure RIPv2 Routing

Step 1. Enable RIP Routing. In the Privileged Exec Mode, insert the command Router RIP. With this command, the prompt changes to (config-router)#.

Step 2. Execute Version 2 command. The default version for RIP (Routing Information Protocol) is version 1. Which primarily used in routing classfull networks. Version 2 command switches from version 1 to 2. This enables Cisco routers to route ip networks with classless addresses.

Step 3. Advertise your Networks. This is very important since only those that are listed below (entered into the router for routing) will be advertised (published to another routers). Format for listing subnetted network should be network <network address>. For example, if we will try to add the network  192.168.0.8 with subnet mask of 255.255.255.252, the command should be network 192.168.0.8.

Download Packet Tracer Practice Lab – Dynamic Routing with RIPv2 (taken from advanced static routing lab)

Command Summary

R1

R1(config)#router rip
R1(config-router)#version 2
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.6.0
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.0.16
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.0.0
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.0.4
R1(config-router)#end

R2

R2(config)#router rip
R2(config-router)#version 2
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.0.4
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.0.8
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.2.0
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.0.12
R2(config-router)#end

R3

R3(config)#router rip
R3(config-router)#version 2
R3(config-router)#network 192.168.0.0
R3(config-router)#network 192.168.4.0
R3(config-router)#network 192.168.3.0
R3(config-router)#network 192.168.0.8
R3(config-router)#end

R4

R4(config)#router rip
R4(config-router)#version 2
R4(config-router)#network 192.168.1.0
R4(config-router)#network 192.168.0.12
R4(config-router)#end

R5

R5(config)#router rip
R5(config-router)#version 2
R5(config-router)#network 192.168.0.16
R5(config-router)#network 192.168.5.0
R5(config-router)#end