# RIP Distance Vector Routing Protocol **URL:** https://forum.networklessons.com/t/rip-distance-vector-routing-protocol/876 **Category:** Lessons Discussion **Created:** [December 20, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/rip-distance-vector-routing-protocol/876 "2016-12-20T22:24:14Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![system](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/uploads/default/original/1X/1d2ef66728c7fbac8377748594345a3f474fce5f.png) [@system](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/system) #### Post date: [September 19, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/rip-distance-vector-routing-protocol/876/4 "2014-09-19T03:26:45Z")
Rene, I’m using the Boson Netsim 9.0 simulator and I configured a lab to match what you laid out in this lesson, what has me baffled is how and where do you see the hop count message of 16, when I shutdown the interface on my R3 router (LAN) 3.3.3.0/24. I turned on debug IP Rip on my R2 router to view the updates being sent from R3. I did see the metric count reach 4 and after that the route was deleted for network 3.3.3.0/24, I never saw the hop count reach 16…just curious about this. Otherwise a very good explanation and write up RIP protocol It could be the simulator not doing a valid simulation of a real router, not sure. Thanks again for your information --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/rip-distance-vector-routing-protocol/876)._