Convergence Behavior of Routing Protocol EIGRP

Name Hubert Pun
Student Number933021508
emailhspun@sfu.ca

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is a Cisco proprietary routing protocol. It successfully addresses most network scalability needs. In addition, it is the only routing protocol that support IP, IPX and AppleTalk.

There are two sections in this project. The first half is the theory part. It introduces different kind of Interior Routing Protocol (e.g. RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP) and also the core of the EIGRP protocol: the Diffusing-Update Algorithm (DUAL). Second, several Cisco routers are used to simulate an industrial network running EIGRP (as shown in Fig. 1). Link failure behavior can be observed by disconnecting the link between Router4 and Router 5. Impact on the convergence behavior will be investigated too by modifying different parameters of the EIGRP (e.g. timers and the "K"s value).

References

Jeff Doyles, CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP, Vol. 1, Cisco Press, January 1998

Michael Saterlee, Stephen Hutnik, Cisco CCIE All-in-One Lab Study Guide Oracle Press, September 1999

Andrew Caslow, Cisco Certification: Bridges, Routers & Switches for CCIEs, Prentice-Hall Of Canada Ltd, December 1998

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/en_igrp.htm

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/103/1.html

http://www.certificationzone.com (need log-in ID)



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