There are four RIPng timers: Update, Age, Suppress, and Garbage-collect timers. You can adjust the RIPng convergence speed by changing the values of the RIPng timers.
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 Suppression timers can prevent routing loops. For details, see Configuring Suppression Timers.
Before configuring RIPng timers, complete the following tasks:
Configure IPv6 addresses for interfaces to ensure that neighboring nodes are reachable at the network layer.
The system view is displayed.
A RIPng process is created, and the RIPng view is displayed.
RIPng timers are configured.
The configuration is submitted.
Run the following commands to check the previous configuration.
Run the display ripng command to view the values of RIPng timers.