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EIGRP Overview and Key Features

EIGRP is a proprietary interior gateway routing protocol developed by Cisco. It is a classless, metric-based protocol that uses a composite metric of bandwidth and delay to calculate the best route. Updates are sent via multicast to the address 224.0.0.10. EIGRP supports IP, IPX, and AppleTalk protocols and has a fast convergence time.

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EIGRP Overview and Key Features

EIGRP is a proprietary interior gateway routing protocol developed by Cisco. It is a classless, metric-based protocol that uses a composite metric of bandwidth and delay to calculate the best route. Updates are sent via multicast to the address 224.0.0.10. EIGRP supports IP, IPX, and AppleTalk protocols and has a fast convergence time.

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4/28/2008

Enhanced Interior Gateway


Routing Protocol

• Cisco proprietary protocol

• Classless routing protocol

• Metric (32 bit) : Composite Metric

(BW + Delay) by default.

• Administrative distance is 90

• Updates are sent through Multicast IP address

([Link] ).

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Enhanced Interior Gateway


Routing Protocol

•Max Hop count is 224 (100 by default)

•Supports IP, IPX and Apple Talk protocols

•Hello packets are sent every 5 seconds

•Convergence rate is fast

Autonomous System

• A unique number identifying the Routing domain of

the routers.

Ranges from 1- 65535

Public – 1 – 64512

Private – 64513 – 65535

• An autonomous system is a collection of networks

under a common administrative domain

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Routing Protocol Classification

IGP EGP

• Interior Gateway • Exterior Gateway


Protocol Protocol
• Routing protocols used • Routing protocol used
within an autonomous between different
system autonomous systems
• All routers will be • Routers in different AS
routing within the need an EGP
same Autonomous • Border Gateway
boundary Protocol is extensively
• RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, used as EGP
OSPF, IS-IS 5

IGP & EGP

IGPs: RIP, OSPF, IGPs: RIP, OSPF,


IGRP, EIGRP EGPs: BGP IGRP, EIGRP

XYZ - AS 100 ABC – AS 200

– IGPs operate within an autonomous system


– EGPs connect different autonomous systems
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EIGRP Tables

• Neighbor Table: Contains information about directly


neighbors.

• Topology Table: Contains entries for all the destinations,


along with feasible distance, any feasible successor,
Advertised distance, and the calculated cost.

• Routing Table: Entries with the best path for each


destination from the Topology Table are moved into
Routing Table.

EIGRP Terminology

• Feasible Distance: Feasible distance (FD) is the cost


of the best route to a destination, including the local link
cost.

• Reported Distance: The cost of a route as advertised by


the neighbor, so it does not include the local link cost
If the advertised distance is less than the feasible
distance, the route is tagged as a feasible successor.

• Successor: The neighbor with best cost to the destination.

• Feasible Successor: The neighbor with second best cost to


the destination.

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EIGRP - Network Diagram

[Link]/16 [Link]/16
S0 S0
CHE S1 HYD S1 BAN
E0 [Link]/16 E0 [Link]/16 E0
[Link]/24 [Link]/8 [Link]/24

LAN - [Link]/24 LAN – [Link]/8 LAN - [Link]/24

Disadvantages of EIGRP

• Works only on Cisco Routers

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