Re: EIGRP ROUTER-ID

It may NOT have any adverse effect for Eigrp but think of MSDP/Anycast, what
if you configure Eigrp in the morning and 6 hours later they get you to
configure MSDP/Anycast using an IP address that is the highest on both
routers? If the routers get reloaded you will reload 1400 dollars in Cisco's
account.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:04 PM, ALL From_NJ <all.from.nj_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> If you do not configure the router id, eigrp will be most helpful and
> automatically pick one. Will router ids be a problem if you do not have
> any
> dups? Of course not ... no worries there.
>
> With EIGRP, I can not think of any problems that would come with not
> setting
> the router id.
>
> With OSPF ... , now this is a different story. ;-)
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> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, nAyYAR <nyrhh_at_hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> > The command reference says ".........If an external route is received
> with
> > the
> > local router ID, the route is discarded......."
> > Can anyone think of a scenario where not setting the eigrp router-id can
> > come
> > back to bite me? Assuming there are no duplicate ID's configured!
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