Chapter 10. EIGRP

This chapter covers the following subjects:

  • EIGRP Concepts and Operation: This section explains the concepts behind EIGRP neighbors, exchanging topology information, and calculating routes.

  • EIGRP Configuration and Verification: This section shows how to configure EIGRP, including authentication and tuning the metric, as well as how to determine the successor and feasible successor routes in the output of show commands.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) provides an impressive set of features and attributes for its main purpose of learning IP routes. EIGRP converges very quickly, on par with or even faster than OSPF, but without some of the negatives of OSPF. In particular, EIGRP requires much less processing time, ...

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