Re: EIGRP ROUTER-ID

I have not actually tested this ... but it makes sense.

If you do not hard code things, .... automagically, things might be
'configured / used' for you.

Thanks Narbik for adding perspective.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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