EIGRP

Question 1

What can EIGRP use for its metric calculation?

Answer 1

bandwidth
delay
reliability
load

Question 2

Neighboring routers must share…

Answer 2

the same AS number

K values that match

Question 3

EIGRP process

Answer 3

1. neighbor discovery
2. topology exchange
3. choosing routes

Question 4

topology table

Answer 4

EIGRP routing information

Question 5

successor

Answer 5

the chosen next hop for a destination network

Question 6

feasible successor (FD)

Answer 6

back-up path/next hop. router whose reported distance is less than the succession feasible distance

Question 7

reported distance (RD)

Answer 7

metric of the best route to reach a subnet

Question 8

Basic EIGRP configuration

Answer 8

router eigrp

network

Question 9

EIGRP verification/troubleshooting

Answer 9

After issuing “show ip protocols”:

check the AS number
check the K values
check network commands

Question 10

Route poisoning

Answer 10

the practice of advertising a failed route

Question 11

split horizon

Answer 11

partial advertisement of routes based on the outgoing interface

Question 12

Infinity

Answer 12

Marks the time limit given for a failed route. Default is 16

Question 13

Hold interval

Answer 13

Max interval a router will wait for a Hello message (3x the default Hello interval of 5)