Re: EIGRP route calculation

From: Joe Soricelli (jsoricelli@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Oct 17 1999 - 21:25:43 GMT-3


   
Answers in-line.

-joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: Muralidhar Devarasetty <dhar_murali@hotmail.com>
To: jsoricelli@fridge.ccci.com <jsoricelli@fridge.ccci.com>
Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: EIGRP route calculation

>Why there is a ration of 256 between IGRP and EIGRP routes?i observed it
>many times in my lab.

The 256 makes EIGRP more granular and scalable in its route selection.

>Is hop count has nothing to do with these?since I remember studying
>somewhere in cisco site the hop count limit for IGRp is 255 and EIGRP is
>225.Will hop count effects any way for route cal?

AFAIK, both IGRP and EIGRP use the hop count ONLY as a way to detect a
possible routing loop. For instance, if the protocol sees a number of
updates come in with escalating hop counts, a loop might have formed

>I know the formula for route cal is BDRL...
>i am bit confused please clarify me
>Thanks
>Murali
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Joe Soricelli" <jsoricelli@ccci.com>
>Reply-To: "Joe Soricelli" <jsoricelli@ccci.com>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Re: EIGRP route calculation
>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:37:11 -0400
>
>The default constants are k1=k3=1 and k2=k4=k5=0.
>
>This results in BW and DLY being used.
>
>-joe
>



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