Enhancing and simulating the RIP routing protocol in cloud

Network routers use dynamic routing protocols to learn remote networks automatically. Each routing protocol has its own pros and cons when considering administration, maintenance, metrics, convergence time, backup routes, network complexity and size, scalability, resource requirements and so on. RIP is the simplest routing protocol, which is supported by almost all routers and many operating systems, but has several deficiencies, such as emerging routing loops and slow convergence. In this paper, we develop a new idea by enhancing RIP in order to to reduce its deficiencies. The cloud environment is used to develop and monitor the enhanced RIP´s packets. The packets were monitored successfully, and remote networks were discovered by using them. Additionally, changes were done in the Wireshark packet analyzer in order to recognize the enhanced RIP´s packets.