THEORY-

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an advanced distance-

vector routing protocol that is used on a computer network for
automating routing decisions and configuration. The protocol was designed by Cisco
Systems as a proprietary protocol, available only on Cisco routers. EIGRP is a dynamic
routing protocol by which routers automatically share route information. This eases the
workload on a network administrator who does not have to configure changes to
the routing table manually.
Neighbor Discovery/Recovery is the process that routers use to dynamically learn of
other routers on their directly attached networks. Routers must also discover when their
neighbors become unreachable or inoperative. This process is achieved with low
overhead by periodically sending small hello packets. As long as hello packets are
received, a router can determine that a neighbor is alive and functioning. Once this is
determined, the neighboring routers can exchange routing information.

PROCEDURE-
In this practical we used EIGRP for the transfer of data between PC’s of different
networks. The routers and PC are connected on the simulation in the following manner.
 Figure 1 Connection of different networks

1) Firstly, all the routers are configured and the gateways are assigned their respective IP
according as per the network using the commands as shown in the figure below in CLI.
 Figure 2 Configuring IP of Router in CLI

2) Now, the PC of the different networks are

assigned static IP as shown on the figure
aside. Also the subnet mask is specified along
with the gateway which is an absolute
necessity during the commnication between
different networks. This is done in similar
manner for the other PC’s.

Figure 3 Assigning IP to PC
3) RIP protocol is set up to in the computer network for the transmission of packets
between the networks. It is not a necessary step but is done in order to compare these
two protocols.
The commands are entered on CLI as shown in the figure.

Figure 4 CLI for RIP configuration of Router

4) The transmission of the data packet through the networks is checked. The successful
indicated the correct configuration between the networks.

Figure 5 Successful packet transmission indication

5) The EIGRP protocol is used among the router for the inter network data transmission.
As there is RIP functioning so it is discarded first and then EIGRP is used for the router.
This is done using the commands in CLI as shown in the figure below similarly for all
the routers.

Figure 6 Configuring Router to use EIGRP

6) Now the packets of data are sent from different PC and Router. Similarly the link
between some routers is disturbed to check the possibility of data transfer even in the
case of failure of one router.

Figure 7 Checking communication by transferring packet

CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION-
In this practical class we learnt about the transmission of the data between two different
PC of two different networks which uses EIGRP protocol for the communication. This
class was aimed to understand the EIGRP protocol and to get the knowledge about cross
network communication.
It has the same function as RIP but is more practical as due to the time of convergence
and also higher distance metric of 256 as compared to 15 of RIP.