Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Impact of Minimum Bandwidth upon EIGRP Metric Calculation


Below shows that EIGRP running on RT1 considers the parallel paths to 172.16.1.0/24 via RT2 and RT3 are equal; while OSPF considers the path via RT3 is better (lower metric or cost).
RT1#sh cdp neighbors
Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge
                  S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater

Device ID        Local Intrfce     Holdtme    Capability  Platform  Port ID
RT2              Fas 0/0            148          R        3620      Fas 0/0
RT3              Fas 1/0            160          R        3620      Fas 0/0
RT1#
RT1#sh ip route eigrp
     172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
D       172.16.1.0 [90/630016] via 10.10.10.2, 00:00:23, FastEthernet0/0
                   [90/630016] via 11.11.11.2, 00:00:23, FastEthernet1/0
RT1#
RT1#sh ip eigrp topology 172.16.1.0/24
IP-EIGRP (AS 10): Topology entry for 172.16.1.0/24
  State is Passive, Query origin flag is 1, 2 Successor(s), FD is 630016
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
  11.11.11.2 (FastEthernet1/0), from 11.11.11.2, Send flag is 0x0
      Composite metric is (630016/627456), Route is Internal
      Vector metric:
        Minimum bandwidth is 4096 Kbit
        Total delay is 200 microseconds
        Reliability is 255/255
        Load is 1/255
        Minimum MTU is 1500
        Hop count is 1
  10.10.10.2 (FastEthernet0/0), from 10.10.10.2, Send flag is 0x0
      Composite metric is (630016/627456), Route is Internal
      Vector metric:
        Minimum bandwidth is 4096 Kbit
        Total delay is 200 microseconds
        Reliability is 255/255
        Load is 1/255
        Minimum MTU is 1500
        Hop count is 1
RT1#
RT1#sh int | in line protocol|DLY
FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 4096 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
FastEthernet1/0 is up, line protocol is up
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,

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