CN8813 Lab: RIP Discontiguous Networks and EIGRP

Physical Network Topology

Configure Frame Relay and VLANs on the pnr7 and pns1 devices to achieve the
following network topology below. Note: pnr7 and pns1 configuration is provided with
the pod’s diagram online; you can copy and paste these configurations to the device
command line.

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I) Routing with RIP
1. Use the table below to assign appropriate IP addresses to the routers in your pod.

Router IP address e0 (e0/0) IP address of s0 (s0/0) IP address of s1 (s0/1)

Pnr1 x 10.1.2.2/24 10.1.3.1/24
Pnr2 10.3.1.2/24 10.1.3.2/24 10.1.1.2/24
Pnr3 x 10.1.1.1/24 10.1.2.1/24
Pnr4 x 10.2.2.2/24 10.2.3.1/24
Pnr5 10.3.1.1/24 10.2.3.2/24 10.2.1.2/24
Pnr6 x 10.2.1.1/24 10.2.2.1/24

2. At each interface, set the bandwidth to 64kpbs.

3. Enable the RIP routing protocol on all the routers.

4. Use “show ip protocol” command to verify that the RIP is configured correctly.

5. Display the current state of the routing table. The table should have entries for all
the subnets in your pod. Which subnets are discovered by the RIP?

6. Ping the routers across the Ethernet link. Can you successfully reach all the
routers?

II) Discontiguous Subnets

1. Change the subnet address of 10.3.1.0/24 to 172.16.1.0/24 and configure the
Ethernet interfaces of PnR2 and PnR5 accordingly.

2. Run RIP on all the interfaces.

3. Can you ping the subnets across the Ethernet link?

4. Use “no ip classless” command to setup the classful routing. Setup a default route
from the subnets of 10.1.0.0 network to the subnets of 10.2.0.0 network. Can you
ping the subnets in the other network?

5. Use the command “ip classless” to enable classless routing. Can you ping the
subnets in the other network?

6. Disable RIP at all the interfaces of your router, remove all the default routes and
use “no ip classless” command to restore classful routing.

7. Configure EIGRP at all the routers in your pod. Use autonomous-system number
100.

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8. After configuring EIGRP, ping the subnets in the other network. Are the pings
successful this time?

III) Display EIGRP Tables

1. Continue running EIGRP in all the routers.

2. Use the “show ip eigrp neighbors” command to display the neighbor table.

3. Use the “show ip eigrp topology” command to display the content of the topology
table. This table shows you only successor and feasible successor routes. Answer
the following questions using the output:

• How many routes are in passive state in the table?

• Is there a feasible successor route to any of the subnets?
• What are the advertised and feasible distances for the feasible successor
route?

IV) Metric Calculation in EIGRP

1. Study the topology table; make sure that you know how to calculate the metrics
associated with the routes in the table.

2. Configure different bandwidths on different interfaces of the routers in your pod:

For s0 interfaces, except the s0 interface of PnR2, set the bandwidth to T1. For s1
interface, set the bandwidth to DS-0.

3. Calculate the maximum possible bandwidth setting for s0 in PnR2 to satisfy the
following conditions:

• PnR2 chooses the route to the subnet 10.1.2.0/24 through subnet 10.1.3.0/24
as the successor route.
• PnR2 also chooses the alternate route to subnet 10.1.2.0/24 as the feasible
successor route.

4. Configure the bandwidth of s0 interface of Router PnR2 according to the

calculation above. Display the topology table to verify the correctness of your
calculation.

V) EIGRP Summarization
1. Write a summarization statement for the subnets in at least one network. Choose
the summarization that has the shortest subnet id.

2. Use the route summarization statement above to configure PnR2 such that the
router only advertises the summarized route to its peer at subnet 172.16.1.0/24.

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3. Show the routing tables on the routers of the other network. They should have the
summary routes.

VI) Convergence
1. Disable the Frame Relay link between the pnr2 and pnr3 routers. Enable e0
interface of the pnr3 router and verify VLAN configuration of the pns1 switch to
match the topology displayed below.

2. Assign the IP addresses 10.3.128.2/24 and 10.3.128.3/24 to the e0 interfaces of

PnR2 and PnR3 respectively.

3. Assign bandwidths of 64kbps to all the serial interfaces in your pod.

4. Run EIGRP on all the routers’ interfaces.

5. Display the routing table of PnR1 and make sure that you see all the subnets,
especially subnet 10.3.128.0/24.

6. Now shut down the e0 interface of PnR3, measure the time it takes for PnR1 to
learn a new route to subnet 10.3.128.0/24.

7. Observe the convergence of EIGRP.