There are four RIP timers: Update, Age, Suppress, and Garbage-collect timers. You can adjust the RIP convergence speed by changing the values of RIP timers.
The system view is displayed.
A RIP process is created, and the RIP view is displayed.
RIP timers are configured.
The configuration is committed.
The value of update is less than that of age, and the value of suppress is less than that of garbage-collect. Setting improper values for the timers affects RIP convergence speed and even causes route flapping on the network. For example, if the value of update is greater than that of age, a device cannot inform its neighbors of the change of RIP routes immediately.
Configuring the Suppress timer can prevent routing loops. For details, see Configuring Suppression Timers.