EIGRP, GRE Tunnels, static route and retry limit exceeded

From: Sydney Hawke (sydneyhawke@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 13:15:20 ART


Hi,

I seem to miss somethng regarding EIGRP, GRE Tunnels, static route

I have been testing EIGRP over a plain GRE tunnel and used static routes for the destination networks of the tunnel.

I tried to have a static route like this (over a frame-relay cloud):

ip route 150.1.2.0 255.255.255.0 191.1.125.2

No problem and the tunnel interface do not have any output drops and here are the details for the eigrp neighbor:

ROUTER5#sh ip eigrp neig detail
IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 100
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
                                            (sec) (ms) Cnt Num
0 25.25.25.2 Tu25 13 00:02:12 126 5000 0 118
   Version 12.4/1.2, Retrans: 9, Retries: 0, Prefixes: 2
ROUTER5#
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This is the problem scenario and I do not understand what the problem is when
I use a static route with the interface as the next-hop???

Then I tried to use a static route like this:

ip route 150.1.2.0 255.255.255.0 ser 0/0

ROUTER5#sh ip eigrp neig detail
IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 100
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
                                            (sec) (ms) Cnt Num
0 25.25.25.2 Tu25 11 00:01:18 1 5000 1 0
   Version 12.4/1.2, Retrans: 16, Retries: 16, Waiting for Init, Waiting for Init Ack
    UPDATE seq 175 ser 0-0 Sent 78332 Init Sequenced
ROUTER5#

*Mar 3 01:32:40.626: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP(0) 100: Neighbor 25.25.25.2 (Tunnel25) is down: retry limit exceeded

ROUTER5#sh ip eigrp neig detail
IP-EIGRP neighbors for process 100
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
                                            (sec) (ms) Cnt Num
0 25.25.25.2 Tu25 14 00:00:00 1 2000 1 0
   Version 12.4/1.2, Retrans: 0, Retries: 0, Waiting for Init, Waiting for Init Ack
    UPDATE seq 177 ser 0-0 Sent 384 Init Sequenced
ROUTER5#

*Mar 3 01:32:44.994: %DUAL-5-NBRCHANGE: IP-EIGRP(0) 100: Neighbor 25.25.25.2 (Tunnel25) is up: new adjacency

ROUTER5#
And here are the output drops for the tunnel interface after I applied the static route with an interface as the next-hop:
ROUTER5#sh int tun 25
Tunnel25 is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is Tunnel
  Internet address is 25.25.25.5/24
  MTU 1514 bytes, BW 9 Kbit, DLY 500000 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation TUNNEL, loopback not set
  Keepalive not set
  Tunnel source 150.1.5.5 (Loopback0), destination 150.1.2.2
  Tunnel protocol/transport GRE/IP
    Key disabled, sequencing disabled
    Checksumming of packets disabled
  Tunnel TTL 255
  Fast tunneling enabled
  Tunnel transmit bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
  Tunnel receive bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:03, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:32:06
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 122

 
Best Regards,

Sydney



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