RIP (disambiguation)

Routing Information Protocol. The most commonly used interior gateway protocol in the Internet. RIP is a distance-vector routing protocol which employs hop count as a routing metric. The maximum number of hops allowed with RIP is 15. RIP updates every 30 seconds, generating lots of network traffic. There are two common versions of RIP, namely RIPv1 and RIPv2. RIPv1 is only capable of classful routing whereas RIPv2 uses VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Masks).

See Routing

Rest in peace, the three letter acronym often appears on tombstones. The actual phrase is from Latin, requiescant in pace and it is coincidence that the English and the Latin come out the same

Raster Image Processor, as in the firmware for PostScript printers.

The British government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, which sets out the government's plans for how the security services can monitor and access communication over the internet. Critics of the act say it is a gross invasion of privacy which will destroy e-commerce in Britain, but the government argues it is necessary to crack down on internet crime and paedophilia.