VPN and RIP

[edgsoccer]

What is the benefit of runing rip and a vpn to the same location??? is it even recommended??

[Parminder Sian · Accepted solution]

Hi Manny,

RIP and VPN are not corelated at all.

1. RIP will be used to make connectivity with remote site, share the routing so that remote site can come over and browse your network shares etc.
2. VPN technology will work only if you have connectivity with remote site, it is not used to make connectivity, i.e if you want to build VPN tunnel between two sites then these sites should be able to talk to eachother via dynamic or static routing.
3. Now, VPN is used to encrypt traffic across the internet, so say for example if you have two sites with complete connectivity and you wish to send some important doc over to remote site, without VPN it will go plain text across the internet or ISP routers and anyone on the way , say for example a Hacker can read what you are sending, however if you use VPN all that information will be encrypted and no one can tell what's in those packets, even if they hack it.

So to summarise it all, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, static routes are used for connectivity and VPN rides over the already existing connectivity to connect the remote sites in secure way.

Parminder Sian

[edgsoccer]

Thank you for your answer... I have some other questions... For RIP do you need a static ip address?? Rip because its not secure is way faster than vpn?? Use Rip if you dont have critical information to see files from site to site??

[Jon Marshall]

Manny

RIP should not be compared with a VPN. RIP is a routing protocol and is used to exchange routes between routers. It is not used to send user traffic from A to B. RIP simply makes sure that each router knows where to send the data to.

A VPN is a way to send traffic across a network. It is usually encrypted but it doesn't have to be ie. an MPLS VPN is not necessarily encrypted.

So you are comparing apples to oranges ie. they do not do the same thing so it doesn't make sense to compare them.

Jon