RE: EIGRP Summary-address behavior

From: Ouellette, Tim (tim.ouellette@eds.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 05:06:50 GMT-3


How can the summary-address be a AD of 5 when it's directly connected to
null0.

Try looking at the router that is receiving the summary route and see if it
gets an AD of 5.

I believe the proper function of eigrp summaries is to add the route to
null0.

Below is a copy of some testing that I did last week.

Tim

Playing around with AD's/Summaries/Null0 filtering for EIGRP. Let me know
if you have any ideas.....

9.9.9.0/24 ---R9-----192.168.1.0/24----R7----ethernet---r6

Router 9 is advertising 9.9.9.0/24 to r7. It arrives there as a /24. On
router7 i've configured
a "ip summary-address eigrp 1 9.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 5" to make r7 adveritse the
9.0.0.0/8 out of
it's ethernet interface and it shows up in the routing table as such. When I
add the summary
onto ethernet2, the 9.0.0.0/8 gets advertised out ethernet2 but not
9.9.9.0/24 (sounds right)
see the following...

18:34:46: IP-EIGRP: 9.9.9.0/24 - don't advertise out Ethernet2
18:34:46: IP-EIGRP: 9.0.0.0/8 - do advertise out Ethernet2

r7#r

     9.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
D 9.9.9.0/24 [90/2297856] via 192.168.1.1, 00:00:04, Serial3
D 9.0.0.0/8 is a summary, 00:00:41, Null0
C 192.168.1.0/24 is directly connected, Serial3
C 192.168.2.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet2

If I use the "ip summary-address eigrp 1" with a 255 AD, the 9.9.9.0/24
route shows up
in r7, but it doesn't advertise the /24 or the summary of /8 (because of the
255 AD) and
I see the following message on r7

18:31:47: IP-EIGRP: 9.9.9.0/24 - don't advertise out Ethernet2
18:31:47: IP-EIGRP: 9.0.0.0/8 - not in IP routing table

So, it's trying to function like normal and create the summary and suppress
the more specific
but because I said the AD of the summary was 255, it doesn't make it into
the routing table
but the more specific is supressed as if it's there (odd, but okay,
understandable)

Now, what I was trying to do besides just putting the AD on the
summary-address was to use the
"distance" command under the eigrp process to get the Null0 route out of the
table. I figured
since it's "from 0.0.0.0" that I should be able to adjust it.

r7#sh ip eigrp top 9.0.0.0
IP-EIGRP topology entry for 9.0.0.0/8
  State is Passive, Query origin flag is 1, 1 Successor(s), FD is 2297856
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
  0.0.0.0 (Null0), from 0.0.0.0, Send flag is 0x0

Here is what I tried and the "debug ip routing" output

r7#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
r7(config)#router eigrp 1
r7(config-router)#distance 255 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
r7(config-router)#
r7#clear ip route *
r7#
18:38:38: RT: add 192.168.2.0/24 via 0.0.0.0, connected metric [0/0]
18:38:38: RT: add 192.168.1.0/24 via 0.0.0.0, connected metric [0/0]
18:38:38: RT: add 9.0.0.0/8 via 0.0.0.0, eigrp metric [5/2297856]
18:38:38: RT: network 9.0.0.0 is now variably masked
18:38:38: RT: add 9.9.9.0/24 via 192.168.1.1, eigrp metric [90/2297856]
r7#r
     9.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
D 9.9.9.0/24 [90/2297856] via 192.168.1.1, 00:01:38, Serial3
D 9.0.0.0/8 is a summary, 00:01:38, Null0

I then tried it using an access-list at the end of the distance command
(didn't do anything)

I then also tried it using a "distance 255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255" so that
any routes from
anywhere would have a distance of 255 (unreachable) when trying to be placed
into the routing
table. This only filtered the 9.9.9.0/24 from entering the routing table
but the 9.0.0.0/8
was stil there. see Below

r7#r
D 9.0.0.0/8 is a summary, 00:03:15, Null0
C 192.168.1.0/24 is directly connected, Serial3
C 192.168.2.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet2

r7#sh ip eigrp top
IP-EIGRP Topology Table for AS(1)/ID(192.168.1.2)

P 9.0.0.0/8, 1 successors, FD is 2297856
         via Summary (2297856/0), Null0
P 192.168.1.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2169856
         via Connected, Serial3
P 192.168.2.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 281600
         via Connected, Ethernet2

After all this I have a couple of questions.
1) Is the only way of filtering to get routes out of the routing table is
to use a
"distribute-list in null0"
2) is the distance command applied under the eigrp process only using for
modified
learned routes from a protocol?

Thanks for actually reading all the way down here.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: cebuano [mailto:cebu2ccie@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:58 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: EIGRP Summary-address behavior

Hello.
I'd like to know if the command "ip summary-address eigrp" as documented
on CCO has changed. It is described under the command reference as
follows.
 
EIGRP summary routes are given an administrative distance value of 5.
The administrative distance metric is used to advertise a summary
without installing it in the routing table.
But I'm getting two conflicting results.
1. I don't see the admin distance of 5.
2. I see the summary installed in the routing table.
 
MC3810a(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 2001 150.100.200.0
255.255.255.0
 
MC3810a#ir
 
     150.100.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 7 subnets, 2 masks
D 150.100.200.0/24 is a summary, 00:02:41, Null0
C 150.100.200.0/30 is directly connected, Serial0
D 150.100.100.0/24 [90/2681856] via 150.100.200.1, 00:02:07,
Serial0
D EX 150.100.2.0/24 [170/2195456] via 150.100.200.1, 00:02:07,
Serial0
C 150.100.3.0/24 is directly connected, Ethernet0
D EX 150.100.1.0/24 [170/2195456] via 150.100.200.1, 00:02:07,
Serial0
D 150.100.10.0/24 [90/2185984] via 150.100.200.1, 00:02:09,
Serial0
 
MC3810a#sh ip eigrp topo
IP-EIGRP Topology Table for AS(2001)/ID(192.168.254.1)
 
P 150.100.200.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2169856
         via Summary (2169856/0), Null0
P 150.100.200.0/30, 1 successors, FD is 2169856
         via Connected, Serial0
P 150.100.100.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2681856
         via 150.100.200.1 (2681856/2169856), Serial0
P 150.100.2.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2195456
         via 150.100.200.1 (2195456/281600), Serial0
P 150.100.3.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 281600
         via Connected, Ethernet0
P 150.100.1.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2195456
         via 150.100.200.1 (2195456/281600), Serial0
P 150.100.10.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 2185984
         via 150.100.200.1 (2185984/176128), Serial0
 
Any comments?
Thanks.
Elmer
.
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