EIGRP Chapter 10 Enhanced interior gateway protocol Advantages over OSPF Converges faster Much less processing Much

Much less memory Less design effort Disadvantage of EIGRP Is that it is CISCO proprietary, EIGRP cannot be used on any router that is not CISCO branded. Categories EIGRP does not fit into the normal distance vector and link state routing protocols. Often (called (Advanced distance vector protocol) (Balanced hybrid routing protocol) 3 general steps to add routes to IP routing table 1. Neighbour discovery: sends hello messages to discover potential neighbouring EIGRP routers. 2. Topology exchange: neighbours exchange full topology updates when the neighbour relationship is established, then only partial updates as required. 3. Choosing routes: each router analysis its respected EIGRP topology tables choosing the lowest metric route to reach each subnet. Show ip eigrp neighbour lists the neighbouring routers Show ip eigrp topology lists topology information learnt from EIGRP neighbours. Show ip route shows all the best routes. EIGRP Neighbour Is an EIGRP speaking router. Is a connected to a common subnet. EIGRP hello messages are sent to multicast IP address 224.0.0.10, to dynamically discover potential neighbours??? After sending out a Hello message to potential EIGRP routers it checks specific settings to check if it should be allowed to be a neighbour. 1. It must pass authentication (same type & key) 2. It must use the same configured AS number (autonomous system number) 3. The source IP address used by the neighbours hello must be in the same subnet. 4. The routers EIGRP K values must also match????(out of the books scope) The update topology messages are sent using reliable transport protocol (RTP) the significances of RTP is that like OSPF, EIGRP resends routing updates that are lost in transit. Better avoiding loops.

Calculating the best routes for the routing table in EIGRP Metric calculation bandwidth and delay by default The calculation can also include interface load & and interface reliability, CISCO recommends against either. IGRP was EIGRP predecessor.

Metric Formula Cumulative-delay = delay of all routes Source->destination/ 10 (tens-of-microseconds) Least bandwidth = lowest bandwidth link in the route Metric = ((10 least bandwidth) + cumulative-delay) * 256

Feasible distance and reported distance Feasible distance (FD): the metric of the best route to reach a subnet, as calculated on a router Reported distance (RD): the metric as calculated on a neighbouring router and then reported and learned in an EIGRP update