Chapter 7. EIGRP

This chapter covers the following subjects:

EIGRP Fundamentals: This section explains how EIGRP establishes a neighbor adjacency with other routers and how routes are exchanged with other routers.

Path Metric Calculation: This section explains how EIGRP calculates the path metric to identify the best and alternate loop-free paths.

Failure Detection and Timers: This section explains how EIGRP detects the absence of a neighbor and the convergence process.

Route Summarization: This section explains the logic and configuration related to summarizing routes on a router.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an enhanced distance vector routing protocol commonly used in enterprise networks. Initially, it was a Cisco ...

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