RE: Kind of silly EIGRP question

From: Scott Morris (smorris@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Tue Mar 17 2009 - 22:21:13 ART


The short answer is no. Even through wireshark. :)

But if you are interested enough to grab packet information, instead of
using the "sh buffers" command you have below, I'd look at "debug ip packet
(ACL) dump" instead.

That's a hidden command for a reason, by the way!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Dale
Shaw
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:10 PM
To: M Lab
Cc: Groupstudy
Subject: Re: Kind of silly EIGRP question

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, M Lab <mlabccie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been looking through documentation and notes, but I'm just not
seeing
> a way that this can be determined through log messages or debugs. This has
> to be something that many have encountered, so I figure I'm just
overlooking
> this somehow. I've put this in my lab and debugged just about everything I
> can think of, but I'm just not seeing it.

Hmmm, I just had a quick look too, and you're right, there doesn't
seem to be a debug or log option to say "hey! our K-values are set to
this, but their K-values are set to that!" like there is with OSPF
hello parameter mismatches.

So, other than using a packet sniffer (that understands EIGRP), I
don't know of a way to dig deep enough into the hellos to figure out
what we'd need to set locally in order to match the other side.
Obviously a packet sniffer is not available in the real lab.

If you were Macguyver, you might be able to use "sh buffers
input-interface fa0/0 packet" just at the right time to catch an EIGRP
hello packet. But only if you're Macguyver.

Given we don't have access to the BB routers in the real lab, I reckon
it is extremely unlikely that you'd encounter a problem like this
between a candidate router and a BB router. Between two candidate
routers? maybe.

Having said all that, I'd be happy to be shown a way to expose the
K-values being offered up from a "would-be" EIGRP neighbour.

cheers,
Dale

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