EIGRP

Autonomous System Number

• A unique number identifying the Routing domain of the routers.
• An autonomous system is a collection of networks under a common
administrative domain
• Ranges from 1- 65535
• Public – 1 – 64512
• Private – 64513 – 65535
EIGRP - ENHANCED INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL

Cisco proprietary protocol

Classless routing protocol
Includes all features of IGRP
Metric (32 bit) : Composite Metric (BW + Delay + load + MTU +
reliability )
Administrative distance is 90
 Hello packets are sent every 5 seconds
Convergence rate is fast
First released in 1994 with IOS version 9.21.
Support VLSM and CIDR
It uses DUAL (diffusion update algorithm)
Summarization can be done on every router
Supports equal and unequal cost load balancing
Updates are through Multicast (224.0.0.10 )
Max Hop count is 255 (100 by default)
Supports IP, IPX and Apple Talk protocols
EIGRP METRIC CALCULATIONS
• Increment updates
• Periodically sent hello packets every 5 sec and dead 15 sec
• Convergence rate is fast 15 sec

• Also pre-calculates second best route

 Best route: successor
 Second best route: feasible successor
 FEASIBLE DISTANCE:
total cost from local router to the destination
ADVERTISEMENT DISTANCE:
Cost from next hop router to the destination

NO. A to F Feasible distance Advertisement

distance
1 ABF 2000 1000
2 ACF 3000 1500
3 ADEF 7000 5000
• EIGRP also pre-calculate the second best route if satisfy the feasibility condition
• Successor: best route to the destination
• Feasible successor: Backup Path

FEASIBILITY CONDITION
FD of current successor route > AD of feasible successor
FD FIRST AD SECOND
NO. A to F Feasible distance Advertisement
distance
1 ABF 2000 1000
2 ACF 4000 2500
3 ADEF 7000 5000
NO. A to F Feasible distance Advertisement
distance
1 ABF 2000 1000
2 ACF 3000 1500
3 ADEF 7000 5000
EIGRP NEIGHBOR TABLE
EIGRP ROUTING TABLE
• Configuring EIGRP
• Router(config)# router eigrp <as no>
• Router(config-router)# network <Network ID>