CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide, 2nd Edition

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 ...