EIGRP

Configuring Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)



NOTE: tos is a reference to the original Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) intention to have IGRP perform type-of-service routing. Because this was never adopted into practice, the tos field in this command is always set to zero (0).

NOTE: With default settings in place, the metric of EIGRP is reduced to the slowest bandwidth plus the sum of all the delays of the exit interfaces from the local router to the destination network.

TIP: For two routers to form a neighbor relationship in EIGRP, the k values must match.

CAUTION: Unless you are very familiar with what is occurring in your network, it is recommended that you do not change the k values.


EIGRP Auto-Summarization



CAUTION: EIGRP automatically summarizes networks at the classful boundary. A poorly designed network with discontiguous subnets could have problems with connectivity if the summarization feature is left on. For instance, you could have two routers advertise the same network—172.16.0.0/16—when in fact they wanted to advertise two different networks—172.16.10.0/24 and 172.16.20.0/24.

Recommended practice is that you turn off automatic summarization if necessary, use the ip summary-address command, and summarize manually what you need to.


Load Balancing: variance


NOTE: If a path is not a feasible successor, it is not used in load balancing.

NOTE: EIGRP supports up to six unequal-cost paths.


Bandwidth Use


NOTE: By default, EIGRP is set to use only up to 50 percent of the bandwidth of an interface to exchange routing information. Values greater than 100 percent can be configured. This configuration option might prove useful if the bandwidth is set artificially low for other reasons, such as manipulation of the routing metric or to accommodate an oversubscribed multipoint Frame Relay configuration.

NOTE: The ip bandwidth-percent command relies on the value set by the bandwidth command.


Authentication



NOTE: For the start time and the end time to have relevance, ensure that the router knows the correct time. Recommended practice dictates that you run Network Time Protocol (NTP) or some other time-synchronization method if you intend to set lifetimes on keys.


Verifying EIGRP


Troubleshooting EIGRP