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Table of Contents

Basics of EIGRP

EIGRP Configuration

Monitoring EIGRP

Chapter 6 Lab Notes

EIGRP Terminology

EIGRP Operation


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Basics of EIGRP

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EIGRP OverviewEnhanced version of Ciscos proprietary IGRP dramatically

increases operational efficiency because EIGRP Uses a more granular version of IGRPs metrics (32 bits v. 24 bits)

Has faster convergence than any other IGP

Is scalable because of VLSM and route summarization

Supports multiple routed protocols through protocol-dependantmodules

Replaces Novell RIP and Apples RTMP

Is technically an advance distance-vector routing protocol

Uses partial updates

Hello packets for neighbor discovery

Is relatively easy to administer

However, does not have OSPFs hierarchical design (no areas)


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EIGRP Metrics

EIGRP scales IGRPs metrics by a factor of 256

IGRP metric = 24 bits; EIGRP metric = 32 bits

Bandwidth and Delay are equally weighted

Reliability, Load, and MTU are off by default

Hop count limited to 224 (IGRPs limit is 255)To remember the metric components

Big = Bandwidth

Dogs = Delay

Really = Reliability

Like = Load

Me = MTU


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EIGRP Tables

Like OSPF, EIGRP maintains three unique tables toassist in routing traffic.

Neighbor Table

Topology Table

Routing TableEIGRP maintains one table of each for each routedprotocol configured on the router.

For example, if a router was configured with IP, IPX and

AppleTalk, EIGRP would maintain3 Neighbor Tables

3 Topology Tables

3 Routing Tables


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Neighbor TableUse the show ip eigrp neighbors command

to view the table. Similar to OSPFs Adjacencies database;

Contains a list of all neighbors discovered through hellos

Maintains hello and holdtime intervals on each neighbor

Maintains information required by RTP (discussed later)

SRTTSmooth Round-trip Timer; avg. time it takes to sendand then receive a reply from that neighbor

RTORetransmission Timeout; how long to wait withoutreceiving an acknowledgement to a reliably sent packet

Router#show ip eigrp neighbors

IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 100

H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq

(sec) (ms) Cnt Num

0 192.168.224.2 Se0 13 00:01:28 930 5000 0 30

1 192.168.208.2 Se1 11 00:02:20 35 1140 0 21


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Topology TableUse the show ip eigrp topology [all-links]

command to view the table. Similar to OSPFs Link-State (Topology) database; Contains all routes the router has learned about from its neighbors and

all the information necessary to calculate a set of distances andvectors to all reachable destinations

FDFeasible Distance; lowest calculated metric to reach a destinationas opposed to

RDReported Distance or Advertised Distance; distance to thedestination reported by the neighbor.

Router#show ip eigrp topology

IP-EIGRP Topology Table for process 100

Codes: PPassive, A

Active, U

Update, Q

Query, R

Reply,

r Reply status

P 192.150.42.120 255.255.255.248, 1 successors, FD is 2172416

via 192.150.42.9 (2172416/2169856), Fddi0

P 192.150.42.8 255.255.255.248, 1 successors, FD is 28160

via Connected, Fddi0

Feasible Distance

Reported Distance


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Routing Table

Use the show ip route command to view table

Like all routing protocols, EIGRP maintains arouting table with

Best routes to destination networks

Maintains up to four equal-cost routes for eachdestinationUnequal-cost routes can be installed if the variance

command has been configured

You are already familiar with the routing table. You willnotice that EIGRP routes are designated with a D.


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EIGRP Terminology

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EIGRP Concepts & TerminologySuccessor

The best, least cost route to the destination installed in the routingtable; multiple successors can be installed for load balancing

Feasible Successor

A next-hop alternative route to the destination kept in the topology

table, ready to be installed if the successor fails; feasiblesuccessors are only in the topology table

Active State

During route recomputation, routes lost due to a successors failureare said to be in the active state. The active state ends when the

route is restored or removed.

Passive State

Installed routes that are not in the process of being recomputedare said to be in the passive state.


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EIGRP Concepts & TerminologyDiffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL)

EIGRPs route computation engine; guarantees a loop-freetopology; calculates EIGRPs metric and installs successors in therouting table & feasible successors in the topology table

Route Evaluation Occurs when the topology changes; DUAL evaluates the topology

table, searching for feasible successors and immediately installingthem, if found; no recomputation is necessary

Route Recomputation DUAL begins recomputing if no feasible successors are found;

queries neighbors for alternative routes; process ends when all

neighbors have replied and DUAL either installs successor orremoves route from the topology and routing tables.

Protocol Dependant Modules (PDM) EIGRPs scalable and adaptable feature because of its modularity;

theoretically, EIGRP does not have to be completely rewritten to

route IPv6just add a PDM.


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EIGRP Packet TypesHello Packets

Unreliable multicast to 224.0.0.10 to discover and maintainneighbors; contains the routers neighbor table Default hello interval depends on the bandwidth

1.544 Mbps = 60 sec. hello interval (180 holdtime)> 1.544 Mbps = 5 sec. hello interval (15 holdtime)

Update Packets Sent reliably, there are 2 types

Unicast to new neighbor discover; contains routing tableMulticast to all neighbors when topology changes

Query & Reply Packets Queries are multicast reliably during route recomputation, querying

neighbors for a new successor to a lost route Neighbors unicast a reply to the query whether or not they have a

route.

Acknowledgement Packets Dataless packet that acknowledges the receipt of a packet sent

reliably


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Reliable Transport Protocol

RTP is EIGRPs flexible protocol used to transportmessage types through a network

Since EIGRP is protocol independent, it has to have itsown connection-oriented and connectionless services

RTP allows unicasting and multicasting reliable andunreliable packets to peers simultaneously

RTP maintains a transmission list in the neighbor tablewith sequence numbers to determine when a requiredacknowledgement has been received.

Works much like TCPs Positive Acknowledgement withRetransmission


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EIGRP Operation

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EIGRP operation is completed in five stages:

Building neighbor relationships

Discovering routes

Choosing the best routes

Maintaining routes Removing routes

These stages do not necessarily occur sequentially

Building relationships and discovering routes occur

together as do choosing and maintaining routers

Note: The following EIGRP Operation discussion is adapted from CCNP

Routing Exam Prep: Exam 640-503 ( 2000)by Robert Larson, et al.

The EIGRP Process


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Building Neighbor Relationships

Neighbor relationships are established through the

use of Hello packets

A new router configured with EIGRP will multicast hellopackets to directly connected routers

The receiving routers will reply if the new router is

Configured with EIGRP

In same AS

Using the same metric weights

EIGRP routers, unlike OSPF, do not have to have the

same hello intervalsDefaults, however, are 5 sec. for > T1 and 60 sec. for T1.


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Discovering Routes

While neighbor relationships are established, the

following steps occur: The new router multicast hellos to 224.0.0.10

Directly connected routers respond with a unicastupdate packet containing all the routes in their routing

table The new router replies to all neighbors with a unicastAck packet and places the contents of the updates in itstopology table

The new router then unicast update packets to allneighbors with the contents of its topology table (this ishow its neighbors learn about the routers uniquelyconfigured networks such as a new LAN)

Neighbors reply to the new routers update with an Ack

packet.


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Building/Discovering Example

1. C comes online and multicastshellos to A & B.

2. A & B unicast an update packetcontaining routing table contents

3. C replies to unicast updates withAck packet and builds topologytable

4. C unicasts updates to A & B with

contents of topology table(includes Cs new LAN)

5. A & B reply with an Ack packet.

A B

C


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Choosing the Best Routes

After a new router has received all the updates

from directly connected neighbors, it can calculateits DUAL. First, the metric for each route in the topology table is

calculated using the following formula:

Metric = 256[(10,000,000/min. bandwidth) + sum of delays] Then, the route with the lowest cost is designated the

successor and is installed (up to 4 with equal costs) inthe routing table.

DUAL then looks for feasible successors. A feasiblesuccessor must have a lower feasible distance to thedestination than the installed routes feasible distance.

All feasible successors are maintained in the topologytable so DUAL can install them immediately if the

successor fails.


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Maintaining Routes

As new routers come online and old routes fail,

EIGRP quickly and efficiently handles thesesituations with little or no downtime.

As new routers come online, their hello packets and theensuing update process has a domino effect on thenetwork.

All routers in the AS almost instantaneously convergeon the routers new networks.

Maintaining routes also means informing directlyconnected neighbors when another neighbor stopssending hello packets at the required interval.


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Removing RoutesWhen a route fails (a directly connected neighbor is no

longer sending hellos), the detecting routers DUAL Enters the route evaluation phase.

Is there a feasible successor in the topology table? If so, immediatelyinstall it, begin routing to the alternative path, and update neighborsabout the alternative.

If no feasible successor exists, enter route recomputation

If necessary, enter the route recomputation phase.

Query neighbors for a alternative route

If neighbor has a feasible successor, it will send it to the router

If it does not have one, it will query all its directly connected neighbors,

thus flooding the AS with the query until an alternate route is or is notfound.

Once the router has received replies from all queried neighbors, it canthen recalculate the best route.

If a new alternative is found, it will be installed in the routing table.

If no new alternative is found, the old route is removed.


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EIGRP Convergence Summary1. Router detects link failure; enters route evaluation

Feasible successors are promoted to successors

Successors are installed in the routing table immediately

All neighbors are updated about the new alternate route

2. If no feasible successors, router enters route recomputation Queries are flooded throughout the AS in search of an alternate

All routers reply whether they have an alternative or not

Originating router waits for all replies before either Removing the queried network for its topology and routing tables or

Adding an alternative path for the queried network in its tables

If a query receives no response, the route becomes stuck-in-active

3. The router has now converged and will now work to converge the entire

internetwork by Generating an update and multicasting it out all interfaces

Update contains info. on what paths the router has added/removed from itstopology and routing tables

Each receiving router will replay with an Ack packet and modify tablesaccordingly

The EIGRP internetwork has now converged.


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EIGRP Configuration

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Similar to IGRP, EIGRP is started with the following

commands:Router(config)#router eigrp [AS_number]

Router(config-router)#network network-number

A router running both IGRP and EIGRP with the same AS numberwill automatically redistribute from one routing process into the

other EIGRP routes redistributed into IGRP are denoted with an I in therouting table.

IGRP routes redistributed into EIGRP are denoted with an D EX inthe routing table.

For interfaces whose actual bandwidth is different than

EIGRPs defaults, use the following command.Router(config-if)#bandwidth kilobits

For example, a serial link defaults to T1 speeds or 1544 kbps. Ifthe contracted speed is a T1 or 768 kbps

Router(config-if)#bandwidth 768

Basic Configuration


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Route SummarizationEIGRP recognizes two types of summary routing:

Automatic route summarization Manual route summarization

Automatic Summarization (on by default in EIGRP) Works the same as IGRP and RIP

Summarizes routes on the classful boundary; does not advertise

subnets; subnets must be contiguous. For example;

Subnets 172.16.16.0/20, 172.16.32.0/20, and 172.16.48.0/20 would beautomatically summarized as 172.16.0.0/16

Automatic summarization has its benefits Conserves resources across classful boundaries in networks with proper IP

addressing design.

Manual Summarization EIGRP can summarize routes at classless boundaries on any router

interface on the network This capability is an advantage over OSPF, which can only summarize

on ABRs and ASBRs


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Manual Summarization

Automatic summarization must be turned off.

in the routing process for EIGRP

Router(config-router)#no auto-summary

To configure a classless summary route

Subnets must be contiguous!! Use the following command on the interface that will

advertise the summary:Router(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrpAS-number ip-address mask


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Manual Summarization Example

On Router B, you would summarize routes

advertised to A as follows:!Start the routing process & disable automatic summarization

RTB(config)#router eigrp 100

RTB(config-router)#network 190.1.1.0



RTB(config-router)#no auto-summary

!Then on the interface, summarize the subnets advertised to A

RTB(config-router)#interface e0

RTB(config-if)#ip address 10.2.50.1 255.255.255.0

RTB(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 100 190.1.0.0 255.255.252.0

BA C

D

e0

e1

e2

190.1.1.0/24

190.1.3.0/24

190.1.2.0/24

10.2.10.0/24

10.2.50.0/24

190.1.0.0/22

Advertised to A


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Null0 means theres

no specific interfacefor 190.1.1.0/22; more

specific routes exist.


Router Bs topology table would show all the

specific routes as well as the summary:RTB#show ip eigrp topologyIP-EIGRP Topology Table for process 1

(output omitted)

P 190.1.1.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 10511872

via Connected, Serial1P 190.1.0.0/22, 1 successors, FD is 10511872

via Summary (10511872/0), Null0P 190.1.3.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 10639872

via 190.1.1.1 (10639872/128256), Serial1P 190.1.2.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 10537472

via 190.1.1.1 (10639872/128256), Serail1

BA C

D

e0

e1

s1

190.1.1.0/24

190.1.3.0/24

190.1.2.0/24

10.2.10.0/24

10.2.50.0/24

190.1.0.0/22

Advertised to A


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Router As topology table would show only the

summary route: Any packet destined for a network that is part of the

190.1.0.0/22 summary would be sent to Router B.

RTA#show ip eigrp topology

IP-EIGRP Topology Table for process 1

(output omitted)

P 190.1.0.0/22, 1 successors, FD is 11023872via 10.2.50.1 (11023872/10511872), Serial0


BA C

D

e0

e1

s1

190.1.1.0/24

190.1.3.0/24

190.1.2.0/24

10.2.10.0/24

10.2.50.0/24

190.1.0.0/22

Advertised to A


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Bandwidth OptimizationBy default, EIGRP will only consume up to 50% of a links

configured bandwidth. If a link in 256Kbps, then EIGRP traffic will use up to 128Kbps

Why would you want to change the default setting?

May be necessary when network apps require certain amounts of

bandwidth at all times. Sometimes, EIGRP traffic will require a certain level of bandwidth

availability.

Note: Changing EIGRPs bandwidth percentage has noeffect on user traffic.

Two commands to configure EIGRP traffic percentage.bandwidth

ip bandwidth-percent eigrp


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bandwidth Configuration

Thebandwidthcommand

Router(config-if)#bandwidth bandwidth

Configured on the interface where you want to adjustEIGRP traffic.

Whatever value is specified with thebandwidth

command, EIGRP always takes 50% of it (by default). Remember: The bandwidth command is only used by

routing protocolsit has no effect on user traffic whenthe protocol is EIGRP. The router does not use thiscommand for any other purpose.

For example, you have a 128kbps link and you onlywant EIGRP to use 16kbps.

Router(config-if)bandwidth 32EIGRP will use, at most, 50% of the configured bandwidth

User traffic will still be allowed to use at least 112kbps (128-16)


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AS #

The second way to modify how much bandwidth

EIGRP uses is to use the following command:Router(config-if)#ip bandwidth-percent eigrpAS-number percent

Use this command when you want to specify adifferent percentage than 50% of the configuredbandwidth.

For example, you have a 64kbps link and the bandwidthhas been set to 32kbps for metric calculation purposes.

However, you want EIGRP to be able to use an entire32kbps of the links 64kbps speed, if needed.

Router(config)#int s0

Router(config-if)#bandwidth 32

Router(config-if)#ip bandwidth-percent eigrp 123 100

bandwidth-percent Configuration


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NBMA ConfigurationsNBMA Configuration

Guidelines EIGRP should not exceed

the CIR of the hubs serialline (also called the accessline).

To do so is calledoversubscribing the link

Aggregate traffic of all linksto the hub should no exceedthe hubs access line speed.

Bandwidth on virtual circuitsmust be the same in bothdirections.

HubRouter


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Point-to-Point NBMAExample of point-to-point

Frame Relay with EIGRP Each spoke router has a

virtual circuit to the hub witha CIR of 256kbps.

This is an oversubscribedsituation.Why would you want to

oversubscribe the spokerouters?

To allow up to 256kbpsacross each spoke whentraffic from other spokes islight.

Configure the 10 subifs withbandwith of 154kbps soEIGRP will only use 50% ofthe subif when the NBMA is

saturated with user traffic.

256k

256k

256k

256k

256k 256k

256k

256k

256k

256k

Access Line1.544 Mbps


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Point-to-Point ConfigurationsHub_Router(config)#interface serial 0

Hub_Router(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relayHub_Router(config-if)#int serial0.1 point-to-point

Hub_Router(config-subif)#bandwidth 154

Hub_Router(config-subif)#int serial0.2 point-to-point

Hub_Router(config-subif)#bandwidth 154

. . .

Hub_Router(config-subif)#int serial0.10 point-to-pointHub_Router(config-subif)#bandwidth 154

256k

256k

256k

256k

256k 256k

256k

256k

256k

256k

Access Line1.544 Mbps

The above configurationinsures EIGRP never

uses more than 77kbpsfor EIGRP traffic

Each Spoke Router mustalso be configured withthe same bandwidth as

the Hub Router.


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Multipoint EIGRP

In point-to-multipoint configurations...

If the CIR of each Spoke Router is the same, set theaccess lines bandwidth to the sum of the CIRs

If the CIR of the Spoke Routers are different, which isthe usual case, either...

Take the lowest CIR and multiply it by the number of virtualcircuits. This causes higher bandwidth links to be underutilized.

Preferred Hybrid Solution: Use subinterfaces and configure likebandwidth virtual circuits on the same subinterface.


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EIGRP & IPX Networks

EIGRP can optimizes IPX updates.

By default, IPX RIP and EIGRP routes are redistributedinto each process.

If IPX RIP and EIGRP have the same hop count, the IPXRIP route is believed unless both routes came from the

same router.This ensure the router always believes an IPX server over a

Cisco router.

If EIGRP IPX is running on two neighbor routers, by

default on...Serial links, SAP updates are only sent when a change occurs

LAN links, SAP updates are sent periodically (60 sec)

You can configure incremental updates if...

all nodes out the interface are EIGRP peers and

the LAN link is not directly connected to an IPX server


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EIGRP IPX Configurations

EIGRP and IPX basic routing configurationsRouter(config)#ipx routing

Router(config)#ipx router eigrpAS

To disable IPX RIP updates for a particularnetwork

Since IPX RIP is on by default (no additionalconfigurations are needed), to disable updates for aspecific network...

Router(config)#ipx router rip

Router(config-ipx-router)#no network network-number

To configure incremental SAP updates on LANs...Router(config-if)#ipx sap-incremental eigrpAS[rsup-only]

rsup-only means IPX RIP routing is used. EIGRP is only used for

SAP updates. EIGRP routes are ignored.


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Monitoring EIGRP

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Monitoring EIGRP

Monitoring Command Description

show ip eigrp neighbors [typenumber][details]

displays the neighbor table; can specify interface; detailsexpands the output

show ip eigrp interfaces [type

number][AS][details]

displays info about each EIGRP interface; options can specify the

interface, AS, and expand the output

show ip eigrp topology [AS|[ip-

address ][mask]]

show ip eigrp topology

[active|pending|zero-successors]

show ip eigrp topology all-links

show ip eigrp traffic [AS]

displays the number of EIGRP packets sent and received sent

the last time the counter was cleared; use to view excessiveEIGRP routing updates

debug eigrp fsmObserve the feasible successor activity and determine if routes

are being installed and deleted by the EIGRP routing process

debug eigrp packet

Observe the transmission and receipt of EIGRP packets

including hellos, queries, updates, etc. Sequence numbers are

also displayed.

displays the topology table; extra options can fine tune the output;

for example:

- specify the AS and/or a specific ip address

- show only routes in the active state, pending convergence, or

routes with no successors

- show all routes, not just feasible successors, with the all-

links option


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Chapter 6 Lab Notes

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Lab NotesLab 6.7.1: Configuring EIGRP with IGRP

Build a router topology with EIGRP and IGRP routers Use the show ip route command to note differences in how

external routes are noted: The IGRP route table will denote EIGRP routes with an I

The EIGRP table will denote IGRP routes with a D EX

Lab 6.7.2: Configuring EIGRP Fault Tolerance Build an EIGRP topology and verify feasible successor

Turn of debug eigrp fsm & observe route flushing

Lab 6.7.3: Configuring EIGRP Summarization Configure topology with loopbacks

View outputs for auto and manual summarization

Lab 6.8.1: EIGRP Challenge Lab Four router lab with EIGRP and IGRP Ass

Capture running configs before and after summarization

Verify successful ping to every interface from all routers


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