5.4. Verifying and Troubleshooting

It is now time to look at the commands you can use to gather data about how EIGRP is running, and (hopefully not too often) use them to help in troubleshooting when there is a problem.

5.4.1. show ip eigrp neighbors

The EIGRP IP neighbor table can be displayed with the show ip eigrp neighbors command, as shown in the output from RnD1.

RnD1#show ip eigrp neighbors
IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 65000
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
sec) (ms) Cnt Num
1 10.1.0.2 Fa0/1 10 1d00h 1 200 0 32
0 10.0.0.5 Fa0/0 13 1d00h 49 294 0 69

Table 5.4 describes the key elements from the output.

Table 5.4. show ip eigrp neighbors
ColumnDescription
H (handle)A number used internally by the Cisco IOS software to track ...

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