5.5. Summary
I have covered quite a few things in this chapter. You saw the Cisco-proprietary routing protocol EIGRP. EIGRP is an advanced distance vector protocol. I described many of the terms that are essential to full understanding of how EIGRP operates.
I showed you the tables and information stored in them that EIGRP uses to build the routing table and provide a router with the information it needs to forward traffic. I also gave you the breakdown of what values EIGRP uses for its composite metric. You can change those values but you have to be careful doing it!
I then went through the configuration of EIGRP and through the advanced features of EIGRP. There you learned how to limit the query scope with summarization and stub routers. I ...
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