Technical Tip: RIP update timer

Description

This article describes how to set the minimum RIP update timer to one second.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

For the RIP update timer, the default is 30 seconds, the maximum is 2,147,483,647 seconds, and the minimum is 1 second.

To set the RIP timer value to one second:

config router rip
    set update-timer 1
end 

Note:

For link failure detection within 1 second or less, the best practice is a migration to protocols such as OSPF or BGP, along with enabling BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection). BFD provides extremely fast link health monitoring without stressing the hardware device.

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Set minimum RIP update timer to one second