Data Communication and Network

(EL-317)
LABORATORY MANUAL
Fall 2015

(LAB# 10)
Dynamic Routing Protocols (IGRP & EIGRP)
Engr. Aamir Ullah Khan

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES, ISLAMABAD

Prepared by: Engr. Aamir Ullah Khan Version: 2.0

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LAB: 10 Dynamic Routing Protocols (IGRP & EIGRP)

Objective
To understand what is EIGRP protocol and its associated parameters. To deploy a fully
Functional network using EIGRP.
Equipment Required
A working computer having Cisco packet tracer installed.
Introduction
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an advanced distance-vector
routing protocol that is used on a computer network to help automate routing decisions and
configuration. The protocol was designed by Cisco Systems as a proprietary protocol,
available only on Cisco routers, but Cisco converted it to an open standard in 2013.
EIGRP is used on a router to share routes with other routers within the same autonomous
system.
Unlike other well-known routing protocols, such as RIP, EIGRP only sends incremental
updates, reducing the workload on the router and the amount of data that needs to be
transmitted.
Features
EIGRP supports the following features:
 Support for Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) and variable length subnet
masking.
 Routes are not summarized at the class-full network boundary unless auto summary is
enabled.
 Support for load balancing on parallel links between sites.
 The ability to use different authentication passwords at different times.
 MD5 authentication between two routers.
 Sends topology changes, rather than sending the entire routing table when a route is
changed.
 Periodically checks if a route is available and propagates routing changes to
neighboring
 Routers if any changes have occurred.
 Runs separate routing processes for Internet Protocol (IP), IPv6, IPX and AppleTalk
through
 The use of protocol-dependent modules (PDMs).
 Backwards compatibility with the IGRP routing protocols.

Cisco IOS example

Example of setting up EIGRP on a Cisco IOS router for a private network. The 0.0.15.255
wildcard in this example indicates a subnet work with a maximum of 4094 hosts—it is the bit
wise complement of the subnet mask 255.255.240.0. The no auto-summary command
prevents automatic route summarization on classful boundaries, which would otherwise result
in routing loops in discontinuous networks.
EIGRP composite and vector metrics
EIGRP associates six different vector metrics with each route and considers only four of the
vector metrics in computing the Composite metric:
Bandwidth
Minimum Bandwidth (in kilobits per second) along the path from router to destination
network.

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Load
Number in range 1 to 255; 255 being saturated
Total Delay
Delay, in 10s of microseconds, along the path from router to destination network
Reliability
Number in range 1 to 255; 255 being the most reliable
MTU
Minimum path Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) (never used in the metric calculation)
Hop Count
Number of routers a packet passes through when routing to a remote network, used to limit
the EIGRP AS. EIGRP maintains a hop count for every route, however, the hop count is not
used in metric calculation. It is only verified against a predefined maximum on an EIGRP
router (by default it is set to 100 and can be changed to any value between (1 and 255).
Routes having a hop count higher than the maximum will be advertised as unreachable by an
EIGRP router.

EXAMPLE 1:
In this example we will configure dynamic routing protocol RIP (v1 & v2) and ensure
connectivity.

Router 0 : Network ID 192.168.1.0

Fast Ethernet 0/0 192.168.1.1
Serial Interface 0/1/0 192.168.4.1

Router 1: Network ID 192.168.2.0

Serial Interface 0/1/0 192.168.4.2
Fast Ethernet 0/0 192.168.2.1
Serial Interface 0/1/1 192.168.5.1
Router 2: Network ID 192.168.3.0
Fast Ethernet 0/0 192.168.3.1
Serial Interface 0/1/0 192.168.5.2

192.168.1.2
PC 0
GW: 192.168.1.1
192.168.2.2
PC1
GW: 192.168.2.1
192.168.3.2
PC 2
GW: 192.168.3.1

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Router Configurations:
Router 0:
Router>en
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface serial 0/1/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.4.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config-if)#bandwidth 64
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit

Router 1:
Router>en
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface serial 0/1/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.4.2 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config-if)#bandwidth 128
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface serial 0/1/1

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Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config-if)#bandwidth 256
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit

Router 2:
Router>en
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface serial 0/1/0
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.5.2 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Router(config-if)#bandwidth 512
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#exit

Confirmation: After successful configuration of routers, we configure EIGRP on all routers.

Router 0:

Router(config)# router eigrp

Router(config-router)#network 192.168.1.0
Router(config-router)#network 192.168.4.0
Router 1:

Router (config) # router eigrp

Router (config-router) #network 192.168.2.0
Router (config-router) #network 192.168.4.0
Router (config-router) #network 192.168.5.0

Router 2:
Router (config) # router eigrp
Router (config-router) # network 192.168.3.0
Router (config-router) # network 192.168.5.0
Confirmation After successfully creating the topology, you can check the connectivity of
the network by selecting a packet from the right window and sending it from PC to another as
shown below:
Finally, you can see that the packet transmission is successful as shown by the message
window:

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LAB EXERCISE:
Exercise 01:
Design the following network using Packet Tracer. Configure EIGRP Protocol and ensure the
connectivity of the system. Show the output of the following commands:
1) show ip eigrp neighbor 2) show ip eigrp topology 2) show ip eigrp interfaces
4) show ip eigrp traffic 5) show ip protocols 6) show ip route

Exercise 02:
Design the following network using Packet Tracer. Configure EIGRP Protocol and ensure the
connectivity of the system. . Show the output of the following commands:
1) show ip eigrp neighbor 2) show ip eigrp topology 2) show ip eigrp interfaces
4) show ip eigrp traffic 5) show ip protocols 6) show ip route

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