Re: EIGRP and Tunnels

From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 19:49:36 GMT-3


   
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tarek Sabry wrote:

>
> ------<R1)>-----(tunnel1)--------------------------MPLS---------------------
> -(tunnel1)-----<R2>---
>
> where on R1:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> ...
> interface tunnel1
> ip address 192.168.30.49 255.255.255.248
> tunnel source x.x.x.x
> tunnel destination x.x.x.x
> ...
> ...
> router eigrp 1
> network 192.168.30.48
> redistribute static
> ...
> ...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In other words, can I:
>
> - run EIGRP on a GRE tunnel?

Yes.

> - transport my static local routes across this MPLS cloud this way?

Yes. You should specify a metric, though. And you'll probably want to
put a sane bandwidth on the tunnel interface. Cisco defaults to 9kbps.

> - use a VLSM network in EIGRP like I did?

It'll default to classful. When you look at the config it will have
network 192.168.30.0 Newer IOS will allow you to specify a mask.

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