EIGRP Flashcards
What does SRTT stand for?
Smooth Round Trip Time (SRTT)
What is the meaning of SRTT?
The average amount of time it takes for a reliable multicast to be acknowledged by a particular neighbor.
What is the RTO?
Retransmission Timeout
The amount of time in milliseconds that the router will wait for a unicast in response to a multicast as part of RTP.
What types of EIGRP Packets are there?
Hellos
Acknowledgements
Updates
Queries and Replies
What are EIGRP Hellos?
Used in neighbor discovery and recovery process. Multicast and use unreliable delivery
What are EIGRP Acknowledgments?
Hello packets with no data in them. Unicast and use unreliable delivery
What are EIGRP Updates?
Convey route information. transmitted only when needed and only to routers that need the information. When needed by multiple routers then multicast is used. Always uses reliable delivery
What are EIGRP Queries and Replies?
Used by DUAL finite state machine. Queries can be multicast or unicast, replies are always unicast. Both always use reliable delivery
What does DUAL stand for?
Diffusing Update Algorithm
What are the four components of EIGRP?
- Protocol-Dependent Modules
- Reliable Transport Protocol (RTP)
- Neighbor Discovery/Recovery
- Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL)
What is RTP?
Reliable Transport Protocol. Tracks the delivery of reliable multicast and makes sure messages are received in order. Send both a sequence number from the sender of each message and the last one received from the neighbor with each message.
What is EIGRP Protocol Number?
88
What is the EIGRP Well-Known Multicast Address?
224.0.0.10 or FF02::A
The Hello Frequency is
- Hellos are usually send very 5 seconds - a small random amount of time to prevent synchronization
- On multipoint interfaces slower than T1 hellos are unicast every 60 seconds.
Command: Hello interval
Interface level command:
ip hello-interval eigrp
The Hold-Time is
The amount of time EIGRP will wait before declaring the neighbor down. Default is 3 times the Hello interval.
Command: hold time
Interface level command:
ip hold-time eigrp
The Q CNT column in “show ip eigrp neighbors” is
Queue Count. The number of outstanding updates, queries, or replies that have not been acknowledged yet.