eigrp and managed ethernet

Kevin Hodle kevin.hodle at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 16:59:14 UTC 2008


You may want to check out BFD for EIGRP,

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk365/tk207/technologies_white_paper0900aecd80243fe7_ps6599_Products_White_Paper.html

Regards,
Kevin

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Philip Lavine <source_route at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is really bizarre is that I am down for minutes not seconds and the timers never fire. If I don't manually passive the connection eigrp will for some reason think there is a neighbor even though I am unable to source ping across the WAN.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matthew Huff <mhuff at ox.com>
> To: Philip Lavine <source_route at yahoo.com>; nanog <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:59:14 AM
> Subject: RE: eigrp and managed ethernet
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> Correct. Eigrp neighbor connectivity has a short-cut when L2 connectivity goes down, otherwise it will use the eigrp neighbor hold-down timer. You can decrease that timer:
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> interface fa0/0
>  ip hello-interval eigrp p x
>  ip hold-time eigrp p y
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> where p is your eigrp as-number, and x is how often you want the hello (in seconds) and y is the max hold-down timer. Generally y is = x * 3
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/iproute/command/reference/1rfeigrp.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Lavine [mailto:source_route at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: nanog
> Subject: eigrp and managed ethernet
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> For some reason when I lose layer 3 connectivity between two managed Ethernet sites EIGRP does not bounce.Is this because the physical interface does not bounce?
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