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    The Feasibility Condition (FC) in EIGRP states that a route can only be considered a Feasible Successor if its advertised distance is less than the feasible distance of the current successor route, in order to prevent routing loops. The FC helps avoid loops by ensuring that if a neighbor advertises a route with a metric higher than the total metric of the current best path, there must be a loop. However, there are cases where the FC is not met but no loop exists - when the successor fails, DUAL will find an alternative path, though convergence may be slower than if a feasible successor was already installed. Network engineers should adjust metrics to satisfy the FC and enable faster convergence.

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    The Feasibility Condition (FC) in EIGRP states that a route can only be considered a Feasible Successor if its advertised distance is less than the feasible distance of the current successor route, in order to prevent routing loops. The FC helps avoid loops by ensuring that if a neighbor advertises a route with a metric higher than the total metric of the current best path, there must be a loop. However, there are cases where the FC is not met but no loop exists - when the successor fails, DUAL will find an alternative path, though convergence may be slower than if a feasible successor was already installed. Network engineers should adjust metrics to satisfy the FC and enable faster convergence.

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    The Feasibility Condition (FC) in EIGRP states that a route can only be considered a Feasible Successor if its advertised distance is less than the feasible distance of the current successor route, in order to prevent routing loops. The FC helps avoid loops by ensuring that if a neighbor advertises a route with a metric higher than the total metric of the current best path, there must be a loop. However, there are cases where the FC is not met but no loop exists - when the successor fails, DUAL will find an alternative path, though convergence may be slower than if a feasible successor was already installed. Network engineers should adjust metrics to satisfy the FC and enable faster convergence.

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    The Feasibility Condition (FC) states that, To be considered a Feasible Successor (FS) the Advertised

    Distance (AD) a.k.a. Reported Distance (RD) must be less than Feasible Distance (FD) of the Successor.
    This is a loop prevention mechanism of EIGRP.
    Successor: Best route to a network. In other words, best metric route to a network.
    Feasible Successor (FS): Second best route to a network.
    FD: Total distance or metric to get to a network.
    AD: FD reported by a neighbor to get to a network.
    How does the FC helps avoiding loops?

    Suppose that R1 advertises Net A to R2 with an AD=5. R2 adds it to its metric to get to R1 resulting in a
    FD=10+5=15. R2 later advertises Net A to R4. R4 to R3, R3 back to R2. R3AD=15+100+20=135. So, R3s
    AD > R2FD, 135>15. It does not meet the FC, which means there is a possibility of a loop. Indeed, there
    is a loop in this case.

    There are cases where the FD is not met however there are no loops either. When the successor route
    fails, the route will be set to Active (A) and DUAL will trigger its mechanism to find an alternative route.
    Lets see.

    50
    15
    R3

    Net B
    R1

    20
    10
    R2

    R1FD to get to Net B is 30. R3AD is 50. 50>30, so the FC is not met. However, there are not loops either.
    R1 can get to Net B thru R3 without any loop occurrence. DUAL will be triggered if Successor route thru
    R2 fails. The network will converge pretty quick, but not as quick as if a FS had been installed in the
    topology table. So, a good network engineer should adjust R3AD to a value less than 30 to avoid this
    evident and unnecessary delay.

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