EIGRP--Operation.pptVIP

Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)Version 2.0 Instructor Name Objectives Upon completing this lesson, you will be able to: Describe EIGRP packets Explain EIGRP adjacent neighbors Define EIGRP reliability, transmission policy, and transport mechanism Describe initial route discovery Interpret debug output for EIGRP packets, EIGRP neighbors, and IP EIGRP EIGRP Packets Hello: Establish neighbor relationships Update: Send routing updates Query: Ask neighbors about routing information Reply: Respond to query about routing information ACK: Acknowledge a reliable packet EIGRP Hello Timers Hellos sent once every 5 seconds on the following links: Broadcast media: Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) Point-to-point serial links: Point-to-point Protocol (PPP), High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Point-to-point subinterface: Frame Relay, ATM Multipoint circuits with bandwidth greater than T1: Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN PRI Hellos sent once every 60 seconds on the following links: Multipoint circuits with bandwidth less than or equal to T1: ISDN BRI, Frame Relay, SMDS, ATM, and X.25 Hold time by default is three times the hello time EIGRP Reliability EIGRP reliable packets are packets that require explicit acknowledgment: Update Query Reply EIGRP unreliable packets are packets that do not require explicit acknowledgment: Hello ACK EIGRP Retransmission Policy The router keeps a neighbor list and a retransmission list for every neighbor. Each reliable packet (update, query, reply) is retransmitted when the packet is not acknowledged. A neighbor relationship is reset when the retry limit (16) for reliable packets is reached. Retransmission occurs each time the RTO is reached. EIGRP Transport Mechanism EIGRP transport has a window size of one (stop-and-wait mechanism) Each reliable packet needs to be acknowledged before the next sequenced packet can be sent. If one or more peers are