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Why does EIGRP aim to be loop free?

All routing protocols try to avoid a loop topology. If there is a routing loop, data is not getting to the destination. If the path from source to destination is A -> B -> C -> D, but there is a ...
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Why do summary routes get a low Administrative Distance?

Since the summarized route means that a router advertising it has knowledge of the individual routes within the summarized prefix, it is more trustworthy than the same (summarized) prefix being ...
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When would we want to do traffic steering?

One example would be when the 'best path' is not actually desirable for the traffic in question. The selected path might be the most efficient (shortest in terms of routed hops etc.) but might ...
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Why do summary routes get a low Administrative Distance?

The AD of the EIGRP summary route is 5 only on the router that has the summary route configured. When the summary is advertised to other routers it has an AD of 90. The reason for the low AD is to ...
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Why can't I ping in this situation?

You have the 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/16 networks defined on both the middle and right routers. Using auto-summary on both makes each think they own those whole summarized networks, so they will not ...
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What Is The Difference Between Using Wildcard Mask In EIGRP And In OSPF?

I'll assume you are referring to the wildcard mask being used with the network ... statements in EIGRP and OSPF configurations. As in (pseudo config code) router ospf 100 router-id <...
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EIGRP metric explanation

EIGRP Metric Formula The EIGRP Metric is a combination of a measure of the entire path's cumulative delay, and the minimum bandwidth across the entire path. The delay value is value assigned to each '...
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How do OSPF and EIGRP deal with 2 exactly same routes?

Will ospf and eigrp share the 10 network on the right to their neighbors? As per my understanding link state protocols like ospf do so while eigrp being a distance vector protocol will share ...
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EIGRP failover - how do i verify it happened?

There is a command made for such checking. Use: show ip eigrp events
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No passive-interface error

You have to put your interfaces into vrf 4. interface fa 2/0 ip vrf forwarding 4 An interface can only be in one vrf. Otherwise, how would the router know which interface to use? If you don't ...
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Why does EIGRP have lower Administrative distance than OSPF?

That is because Cisco determines the AD used by its devices, and EIGRP is a Cisco protocol, so Cisco decided to make EIGRP have a lower AD than other protocols. Each vendor determines the relative ...
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Ramifications of turning off Spanning Tree for EIGRP network?

Spanning-tree is a loop detection / prevention mechanism. As such, it has nothing to do with EIGRP. Unless you have loops, or parallel layer-2 links in the network, STP isn't doing anything for you. ...
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Choosing a routing protocol

To choose a routing protocol you should consider these topics: Configuration: How easy is to configure and troubleshoot the protocol. Efficiency: How fast it converges? How much bandwith it uses? ...
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Why I cant Ping An Address across my a routed link

If you are talking about L3 interfaces and EIGRP, we must assume this: Network1: Switch1 - Firewall Network2: Switch2 - Switch1 First. You need to set-up on your firewall EIGRP(on the way to LEARN ...
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How does EIGRP determine the path to far away destinations?

There seems to be a confusion here : in a distance-vector routing protocol, the routers don't just get routes to their neighbors (which would be trivial in most cases) they get their neighbor's full ...
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EIGRP failover - how do i verify it happened?

Yes, you can confirm that. Once hold-time expires, the former feasible successor route immediately becomes the successor route and is installed in routing table. I do not think we have a log message ...
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No passive-interface error

From your configs, interface FastEthernet2/0 is not part of vrf 4 that your EIGRP is configured for oneither of your routers. Try adding your interface to the vrf with the following. interface ...
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Filter routes based on interface

You can specify what routes exactly you want to receive from neighbor on specific interface by using distribute-list option: (conf)# router eigrp 10 (config-router)# distribute-list 50 in Tunnel 3 ...
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EIGRP authentication on GRE tunnel interface?

Yes, you can do that. Below is an example: Router-A# ! key chain Netlab key 13 key-string Netlabbuilder ! interface Tunnel1 description Site-B ip address 10.99.99.1 255.255.255.252 ip mtu 1400 ...
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EIGRP Auto-summary

Auto-summary summarizes network advertisements based on classful boundaries. Since classful addressing has been obsolete since before you were born, it's good practice to disable it.
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Ramifications of turning off Spanning Tree for EIGRP network?

switch that has elected itself You should never leave the root bridge to chance. If the current root switch goes offline or is rebooted your spanning tree needs to reconverge, causing temporary ...
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In router's config, why do I need to advertise the directly connected network?

I think you misunderstand the OSPF and EIGRP network statement. The network statement does not advertise a network, it tells the routing protocol which interface(s) to include in the routing protocol ...
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Running multiple EIGRP processes on a router

Running multiple processes is not very common and there are not a lot of examples. One possible reason for running multiple processes is when there are two separate routing domains (e.g. when merging ...
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Doesn't OSPF Have Auto Summarization?

I'm not going to get into the specifics of the various protocols other than OSPF because it is a good example to start with and it gets confusing if you pull in completely different things. Details ...
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Interior vs Exterior Gateway Protocols

In practice, there is only one EGP in use today, and that is BGPv4. OSPF and EIGRP are the most common IGPs. RIP is essentially obsolete. Can a company private network be considered as an ...
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Keep EIGRP up even through an interface flaps

Have you considered setting the link debounce timer to a higher value than its default (which I think is 100ms)? This basically delays the notification that the link has flapped, and can affect ...
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This is an EIGRP Topology with frame relay. I'm not able to figure out why R1's topology table doesn't a show feasible successor for 192.168.2.0/24

I'm not able to figure out why R1's topology table doesn't show feasible successor for 192.168.2.0/24? Remember the feasible successor rule: A feasible successor is a path whose reported distance ...
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BGP problems, cannot ping

You have not set the clock rate on the DCE side of the connection. The command is clock rate <rate>. See Cisco IOS Interface and Hardware Component Command Reference. Another problem is that ...
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Preventing Load balancing in EIGRP

If you simply want to prevent load balancing, then you can use the maximum-paths command in EIGRP to do that. Just set it to 1: router eigrp 1 maximim-paths 1 EIGRP Commands: maximum-paths (...
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