Verify that RIP messages are being sent and received on all RIP-enabled interfaces.
From the CLI, enter the show rip statistics command.
user@host> show rip statistics
RIPv2 info: port 520; holddown 120s.
rts learned rts held down rqsts dropped resps dropped
10 0 0 0
t1-0/0/2.0: 0 routes learned; 13 routes advertised; timeout 120s; update interval 45s
Counter Total Last 5 min Last minute
------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Updates Sent 2855 11 2
Triggered Updates Sent 5 0 0
Responses Sent 0 0 0
Bad Messages 0 0 0
RIPv1 Updates Received 0 0 0
RIPv1 Bad Route Entries 0 0 0
RIPv1 Updates Ignored 0 0 0
RIPv2 Updates Received 41 0 0
RIPv2 Bad Route Entries 0 0 0
RIPv2 Updates Ignored 0 0 0
Authentication Failures 0 0 0
RIP Requests Received 0 0 0
RIP Requests Ignored 0 0 0
ge-0/0/1.0: 10 routes learned; 3 routes advertised; timeout 180s; update interval 30s
Counter Total Last 5 min Last minute
------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Updates Sent 2855 11 2
Triggered Updates Sent 3 0 0
Responses Sent 0 0 0
Bad Messages 1 0 0
RIPv1 Updates Received 0 0 0
RIPv1 Bad Route Entries 0 0 0
RIPv1 Updates Ignored 0 0 0
RIPv2 Updates Received 2864 11 2
RIPv2 Bad Route Entries 14 0 0
RIPv2 Updates Ignored 0 0 0
Authentication Failures 0 0 0
RIP Requests Received 0 0 0
RIP Requests Ignored 0 0 0
The output shows the number of RIP routes learned. It also shows the number of RIP updates sent and received on the RIP-enabled interfaces. Verify the following information: