ip rip poison enable (for a port)

Enable Poison Reverse. If Poison Reverse is enabled, the RIP updates sent to a neighbor from which a route is learned are poisoned with a metric of 16. Therefore, the receiver neighbor ignores this route because the metric 16 indicates infinite hops in the network.

If you disable Poison Reverse (no poison enable), Split Horizon is enabled. By default, Split Horizon is enabled. If Split Horizon is enabled, IP routes learned from an immediate neighbor are not advertised back to the neighbor.

These mechanisms prevent routing loops.

Syntax

Command Parameters

enable
Enables Poison Reverse.
  • If Poison Reverse is enabled, the RIP updates sent to a neighbor from which a route is learned are poisoned with a metric of 16. Therefore, the receiver neighbor ignores this route because the metric 16 indicates infinite hops in the network.

  • If you disable Poison Reverse (no poison enable), Split Horizon is enabled. By default, Split Horizon is enabled. If Split Horizon is enabled, IP routes learned from an immediate neighbor are not advertised back to the neighbor.

These mechanisms prevent routing loops.

Default

The default is disabled.

Command Mode

GigabitEthernet Interface Configuration