Chapter 7: EIGRP Tuning and Troubleshooting

7.1TUNE EIGRP
EIGRP is a versatile routing protocol that can be fine-tuned in many ways.
Two of the most important tuning capabilities are
 the ability to summarize routes: using a single, summarized route. it is necessary due to the
rapid growth of networks. Summarization decreases the number of entries in routing updates
and lowers the number of entries in local routing tables. It also reduces bandwidth utilization
for routing updates and results in faster routing table lookups.
EIGRP for IPv4 automatic summarization is disabled by default beginning with Cisco IOS Release
15.0(1)M and 12.2(33). Prior to this, automatic summarization was enabled by default.
# show ip route eigrp: Display the current EIGRP routing table.
(config)# router eigrp 1

(config-router)# auto-summary: Configure EIGRP automatic summarization

show ip eigrp topology all-links: to view all incoming EIGRP routes

 the ability to implement load balancing: By default, EIGRP uses only up to 50 percent of an
interface’s bandwidth for EIGRP information. This prevents the EIGRP process from over-
utilizing a link and not allowing enough bandwidth for the routing of normal traffic.
ip bandwidth-percent eigrp: to configure the percentage of bandwidth that can be used by
EIGRP on an interface.
ipv6 bandwidth-percent eigrp
uses network segments and bandwidth more efficiently
Cisco IOS, by default, allows load balancing using up to four equal-cost paths; however, this can
be modified. Using the maximum-paths router configuration mode command, up to 32 equal-
cost routes can be kept in the routing table.
Other tuning capabilities include
 being able to propagate a default route: redistribute static : tells EIGRP to include static routes in
its EIGRP updates to other routers.
 fine-tune timers: EIGRP uses a lightweight Hello protocol to establish and monitor the
connection status of its neighbor.
 implement authentication between EIGRP neighbors to increase security.