Sunday, October 24, 2010

EIGRP

Except for the odd cisco class, I've never actually used EIGRP. It's another interior routing protocol, like OSPF and often used in place of it. It's cisco-only, as it's cisco's proprietary protocol, which makes it a non-starter in heterogeneous routing environments. (OSPF is based on standards and is supported by pretty much all vendors of "real" routers, which is to say "not a $30 home router for your dsl line".)

Unlike OSPF, EIGRP doesn't have the concept of "areas", so all of your internal network is lumped into a single monolithic administrative collective. Like OSPF, it establishes neighbor relationships with other routers and shares routes among its neighbors. EIGRP gives you a few more ways to tweak your routes, having bandwidth and delay instead of a simple cost metric and does route filtering a bit more granularly.

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Regis has worked as a network engineer since 1994 for small companies and for large companies.