5 managing routing information protocol (rip) – Fortinet 548B User Manual

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Admin Mode - Administrative mode of the relay. When you select 'enable' BOOTP/DHCP requests
will be forwarded to the IP address you entered in the 'Server IP address' field.

Minimum Wait Time (secs) - The Minimum time in seconds. This value will be compared to the time
stamp in the client's request packets, which should represent the time since the client was powered
up. Packets will only be forwarded when the time stamp exceeds the minimum wait time.

Circuit ID Option Mode - This is the Relay agent option which can be either enabled or disabled.
When enabled Relay Agent options will be added to requests before they are forwarded to the server
and removed from replies before they are forwarded to clients.

Requests Received - The total number of BOOTP/DHCP requests received from all clients since
the last time the switch was reset.

Requests Relayed - The total number of BOOTP/DHCP requests forwarded to the server since the
last time the switch was reset.

Packets Discarded - The total number of BOOTP/DHCP packets discarded by this Relay Agent
since the last time the switch was reset.

11.4.5

Managing Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

11.4.5.1 Configuring RIP Global Configuration Page

Configurable Data

RIP Admin Mode - Select enable or disable from the pulldown menu. If you select enable RIP will be
enabled for the switch. The default is disabled.

Split Horizon Mode - Select none, simple or poison reverse from the pulldown menu. Split horizon
is a technique for avoiding problems caused by including routes in updates sent to the router from
which the route was originally learned. The options are:

None - no special processing for this case.

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