Re: HDLC IP unnumbered with EIGRP

Hi Marc,
Yes, that's an alternative, but i'm wondering if there is a nicer solution
similar to the one in PPP, where it would work all of the time.

Thanks

Tom

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM, marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't you just manipulate the metrics to make the serial link
> more preferred?
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Tom Kacprzynski <tom.kac_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I came upon a scenario that I'm not sure how to solve, hopefully someone
>> can help.
>>
>> I have three routers connected in a triangle.
>> (R4)-s0/0/1------s0/0/1-(R5)-s0/0/0------R3---R4
>>
>> On R4 and R5 I'm trying to setup ip unnumbered address based on a
>> loopback.
>> The serial interfaces are running hdlc.
>> I have eigrp enabled on all interface.
>>
>> Here is the problem.
>> R4 seems R5 as an eigrp neighbor over s0/0/1, R5 sees the same things, but
>> they prefer to route to each other using R3 as it has a lower metric.
>> I know that if I had used PPP encapsulation, then each router would
>> install a host route to the directly connected interface (s0/0/1), but
>> when
>> using hdlc that does not happen.
>>
>> D 167.1.45.5/32 [90/4857856] via 167.1.34.3, 00:12:19, Serial0/0/0
>> <-R4 uses R3 as the next hop
>> C 167.1.45.4/32 is directly connected, Loopback45
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to solve this?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>> (by the way this is a modified version of the INE vol 2 lab 14 task 1.7)
>>
>> Tom
>>
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