Day 26

EIGRP

Key Topics

Today we review key concepts related to Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). EIGRP is advanced compared to traditional distance vector–style dynamic routing protocols (such as RIP and IGRP). The primary purposes of EIGRP are to maintain stable routing tables on Layer 3 devices and quickly discover alternate paths in the event of a topology change. Cisco designed EIGRP as a migration path from the proprietary IGRP protocol to solve some of IGRP’s deficiencies and as a solution to support multiple routed ...

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