Re: EIGRP Basic DUAL rule

Hi Kumar,

  Thanks for the detailed explanation.When I read ,In EIGRP ,it mentions
about delay parameter being send to infinity and not the bandwidth or load
or reliability,so I am curious why so ?.

Once again,Thank you

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM, R.B. Kumar <seekumarin_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anantha,
>
> EIGRP combines these Poison reverse and Split Horizon to help prevent
> routing loops.
>
> EIGRP uses split horizon or Poison reverse when:
>
> 1) 2 Routers are in startup mode
> 2) advertise the topology change
> 3) sending queries
>
> Poison reverse makes the route as unreachable means it sends the Metric as
> INFINITY.
> For RIP = 16
> For EIGRP = 4.1 Billon (32 Bit)
> For IGRP = 26 Bit
>
> This is my understanding based on the articles & books. If I am deviating
> from the concept, Experts, please correct me
>
> RBK

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Received on Sun Aug 23 2009 - 07:58:52 ART