To define RIPng properties can be entered either in the global RIPng configuration context and/or with each neighbour. They either apply to all or just to a specific RIPng neighbour.

By default, RIPng imports routes from the neighbours configured with the neighbor statement. These routes include those learned from RIPng as well as those learned from other protocols. By default, routes that RIPng imports from its neighbors have a metric of 1 added to the current route metric.

To change the default metric to be added to incoming routes, include the metric-in statement, which can be a value from 1 through 15. A value of 16 indicates infinity or unreachable.

You can enable and disable the sending or receiving of update messages. By default, sending and receiving update messages is enabled. To disable the sending and receiving of update messages, include the receive and send statements with the none keyword.

To enable the sending and receiving of update messages, just include the receive and send statements.

To filter routes being imported by the local router from its neighbours, include the import statement and list the names of one or more policies to be evaluated. If you specify more than one policy, they are evaluated in order (first to last) and the first matching policy is applied to the route. If no match is found, the local router does not import any routes.