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What Is EIGRP

EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector routing protocol that relies on features from link-state protocols like neighbor discovery and partial route updates. It uses hello packets to establish neighbor relationships and maintain adjacency. EIGRP routers use hello packets, update packets, and acknowledgment packets to share routing information and maintain the neighbor table, topology table, and routing table for each routed protocol.

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What Is EIGRP

EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector routing protocol that relies on features from link-state protocols like neighbor discovery and partial route updates. It uses hello packets to establish neighbor relationships and maintain adjacency. EIGRP routers use hello packets, update packets, and acknowledgment packets to share routing information and maintain the neighbor table, topology table, and routing table for each routed protocol.

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What is EIGRP?

• EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector


routing protocol that relies on features
commonly associated with link-state
protocols.
• EIGRP uses Link State's partial updates
and neighbor discovery.
• EIGRP's advanced features supports IP,
IPX and AppleTalk.
• EIGRP uses RTP (Reliable Transport
Protocol) to transport its routing updates

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IGRP and EIGRP Metric Calculation - 1
• The composite metric is calculated with the
following formula:

• By default, k1=k3=1 and k2=k4=k5=0. The


default composite metric for EIGRP, adjusted
for scaling factors, is as follows:

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EIGRP Neighbor Discovery -1

• EIGRP routers actively establish relationships with their


neighbors, similar to what Link State routers do.
• EIGRP routers establish adjacencies with neighbor routers by
using small hello packets.
• The Hello protocol uses a multicast address of 224.0.0.10,
and all routers periodically send hellos.
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EIGRP Neighbor Discovery - 2
• On hearing hellos, the router creates a table of its
neighbors.
• The continued receipt of these packets maintains
the neighbor table
• To become a neighbor, the following conditions must
be met:
– The router must hear a hello packet or an ACK from a
neighbor.
– The AS number in the packet header must be the same as
that of the receiving router.
– The neighbor’s metric settings must be the same.
– Each Layer 3 protocol has its own neighbor table.
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Neighbor Discovery - 3

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Neighbor Discovery - 4

By forming adjacencies, EIGRP routers do the


following:
• Dynamically learn of new routes that join
their network
• Identify routers that become either
unreachable or inoperable
• Rediscover routers that had previously
been unreachable
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EIGRP Neighbor Tables
• The most important table in EIGRP is the neighbor table
and relationships tracked in the neighbor table are the
basis for all the EIGRP routing update and convergence
activity.
• The neighbor table contains information about
adjacent neighboring EIGRP routers.
• A neighbor table is used to support reliable, sequenced
delivery of packets.
• An EIGRP router can maintain multiple neighbor tables,
one for each PDM running (e.g., IP, IPX, and AppleTalk)
routed protocols.
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EIGRP Packet Types - 1
• Hello packets assist in the discovery of EIGRP
neighbors. The packets are multicast to 224.0.0.10.
• An acknowledgment packet acknowledges the
reception of an update packet. An acknowledgment
packet is a hello packet with no data.
Acknowledgment packets are sent to the unicast
address of the sender of the update packet.

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EIGRP Topology Table - 1
• EIGRP uses its topology table to store all the information it
needs to calculate a set of distances and vectors to all
reachable destinations.
• EIGRP maintains a separate topology table for each routed
protocol.
• EIGRP sorts the topology table so that the successor routes
are at the top, followed by feasible successors.
• Entries in the topology table can be in one of two states:
active or passive.
• A passive route is one that is stable and available for use. An
active route is a route in the process of being recomputed by
DUAL.
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EIGRP Routing Table
• The routing table contains the routes installed by DUAL
as the best loop-free paths to a given destination
• EIGRP will maintain up to four routes per destination.
These routes can be of equal or unequal cost.
• EIGRP routers maintain a separate routing table for each
routed protocol.

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