This enumerated object, enable or disable, controls whether RIP's jitter-update feature is active on this virtual router, which randomizes update timing slightly to avoid synchronized bursts of RIP traffic from multiple routers. Enabling it helps smooth out RIP traffic when several routers on the same segment are configured with identical update intervals. An admin who notices periodic traffic spikes from several RIP routers updating in lockstep would enable this jitter feature to desynchronize them.