From: Packet Man (ccie2b@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 17:26:59 GMT-3
Hey Gary,
Yes, I did. And, I was trying to use that info. I liked how it should
possible to get an idea of the hello interval from the show ip ei nei
command. I also very much liked Scott's idea of using the timestamps to see
how often the Hello's come and go - although in practice it seems very
difficult to sort through all the output to find just the hello's from a
particular neighbor. Another problem is that the timestamps on the local
router don't match up exactly with the interval set on the remote router.
For example, I noticed that when the hello was set to 25 seconds on the
remote rtr, the timestamps on the local router indicated that the hello
interval was 23 seconds. I don't know why that is but that's what I saw.
While playing around, however, I noticed that Eigrp doesn't (it seems)
automatically change the holdtime interval to be 3 times the hello interval.
I also noticed that even though Eigrp isn't suppose to require that these
intervals match at both ends of the link, if they don't, the neighbor flaps
up and down.
I'm going to try using different combo's of intervals on one end of the link
to see what causes the neighbor to flap, but so far, it seems that if faced
with this type of scenario in the actual lab the best thinkg to do is the
following:
a) use time stamps to see how often Hello's are being rec'd
b) then change both the hello and holdtime intervals on the router you
control.
>From: "Gary Duncanson" <turgon2004@hotmail.com>
>To: ccie2b@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: Eigrp
>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:25:24 +0000
>
>did you get my email with the links yet? Might help. It hasn't appeared on
>the list yet.
>
>
>>From: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>
>>To: cchurch@wamnetgov.com, turgon2004@hotmail.com
>>CC: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>Subject: RE: Eigrp
>>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:21:42 -0500
>>
>>Hi Chuck,
>>
>>Thanks for getting back to me on this.
>>
>>Actually, this is a practice lab problem. The issue here is to figure out
>>how the remote router was (mis) configured by finding and using the
>>appropriate debugs - and then configuring the local router as to match.
>>So, it's "known" that there's no cable, interface, hardware issue here,
>>although in the real world those sort of things would be among the first
>>to check.
>>
>>The idea is to be able to overcome this type of potential "nasty" in the
>>actual lab where you don't access to the backbone router - only your
>>router which is connected to the backbone router. I'm doing this with
>>every routing protocol as an exercise to get stronger with using and
>>interpreting debugs.
>>
>>With other protocols, it seems easier to find mis-matched parameters, but
>>I'm having a heck of time doing so with Eigrp. The output from their
>>debugs is unintellible for the most part and appears to be very poorly
>>documented.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@wamnetgov.com>
>>>To: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>,<turgon2004@hotmail.com>
>>>CC: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>>Subject: RE: Eigrp
>>>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:47:18 -0600
>>>
>>>Is this a new installation, or has it been in place for a while? If it's
>>>flapping and been in place for a while, I'd say it's more likely packet
>>>loss due to something, rather than mis-configuration. A failing circuit
>>>will usually cause hellos to be lost and up/down neighbor messages to be
>>>logged. Check your DSUs for errors, assuming it's serial ints. And
>>>check the serial ints for errors, queue drops, etc. A pegged CPU on the
>>>router can also cause neighbors to drop.
>>>
>>>Chuck Church
>>>CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
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>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Packet Man [mailto:ccie2b@hotmail.com]
>>> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:40 PM
>>> > To: turgon2004@hotmail.com
>>> > Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>> > Subject: RE: Eigrp
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for getting back to me.
>>> >
>>> > As it happens, I tried both of those debugs but the output
>>> > was, for the most
>>> > part, undecipherable and I couldn't tell from that output if
>>> > there was a
>>> > mis-match.
>>> >
>>> > Do you know what specifically I should look for in the output
>>> > from those
>>> > debugs to see if there's a Hello or Hold interval mismatch?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks iv advanced
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >From: "Gary Duncanson" <turgon2004@hotmail.com>
>>> > >To: ccie2b@hotmail.com
>>> > >CC: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>> > >Subject: RE: Eigrp
>>> > >Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:34:49 +0000
>>> > >
>>> > >debug eigrp neighbor
>>> > >debug eigrp packet
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >>From: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>
>>> > >>Reply-To: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>
>>> > >>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>> > >>Subject: Eigrp
>>> > >>Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:50:24 -0500
>>> > >>
>>> > >>Hi all,
>>> > >>
>>> > >>I'm trying to debug a flapping Eigrp neighbor. I can
>>> > access my local
>>> > >>router's config but I can't access the remote router.
>>> > >>
>>> > >>I'm trying to figure out which debug to use to see if
>>> > there's a mismatched
>>> > >>hello or holdtime interval, but can't seem to find the
>>> > right debug to use.
>>> > >>
>>> > >>Anybody have any ideas?
>>> > >>
>>> > >>Thanks in advanced.
>>> > >>
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