EIGRP Beginner

looking for good gns3 lab to improve my performance

thanks,
karl

well, what kind of labs are you looking for?

Change the bandwidth so traffic from router Z to router Y uses the link between X and Z.

C 172.16.3.0/24 is directly connected, Loopback0
C 192.168.23.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet1/0

Change only the bandwidth will affect nothing because this routes have lower costs.

The Metric EIGRP uses is based on bandwidth and delay by default. By playing around with the bandwidth you can influence routing. Try to reach the loopback of router Y from router Z and influence this.

Of course the directly connected networks you can't change since it has an administrative distance of 0.

Good luck

not getting this point

How to execute command for this ? :'(

Fix not on common subnet, EIGRP...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080093f09.shtml

Bandwidth can be configured on the interface. Not on common subnet errors you will see when you have 2 routers not in the same subnet ;D

@Rene ... thanks a lot .. have successfully completed lab.

Cheers!!

Thanks,
Rajdeep

How to do this ?
Change the EIGRP configuration on all routers so load and reliability are also used as metrics.

unable to load labs into gns3 receive error below. Please help thanks

203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)

*** Error: errors during loading of the topology file, please correct them
Warning: using localhost in your topology file is not recommended
Local working directory /tmp cannot be found for hypervisor localhost:7200, use working directory C:Usersjamesr01DocumentsGNS3 projets instead
Local IOS image /Data/IOS Images/c3640-jk9s-mz.124-16.bin cannot be found for hypervisor localhost:7200, use image C:Usersjamesr01Downloadsc3640-ik9o3s-mz.124-25b.bin instead
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)

*** Error: errors during loading of the topology file, please correct them
Warning: using localhost in your topology file is not recommended
Local working directory /tmp cannot be found for hypervisor localhost:7200, use working directory C:Usersjamesr01DocumentsGNS3 projets instead
Local IOS image /Data/IOS Images/c3640-jk9s-mz.124-16.bin cannot be found for hypervisor localhost:7200, use image C:Usersjamesr01Downloadsc3640-ik9o3s-mz.124-25b.bin instead
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)
*** Warning: received dynamips server error:
203-Bad number of parameters (1 with min/max=2/2)

*** Error: errors during loading of the topology file, please correct

I got the same error. Turns out the ios image location has to be properly mentioned in the topology file.

My comeplted lab file: http://www.saheliruppage.info/ccie/EIGRPBeginner.7z?attredirects=0&d=1

For everyone who encounters this error, I just created this article how to fix it:

http://gns3vault.com/FAQ/203-bad-number-of-parameters-1-with-minmax22.html

Good work for all of us to see.Keep it up Bro.Can you direct me the link of video for Beginner EIGRP? Thanks.

Hello David,

I'm silly that I missed this one, will record it ASAP and put it online.

Rene

Did AS 10 for all 3 router and advertise eigrp on 3 routers.

All routers where able to ping themselves.Can I see any debug output?

sample config of R2:

!
hostname R2
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
!
no aaa new-model
memory-size iomem 5
!
!
ip cef
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 172.16.2.1 255.255.255.0
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 192.168.12.2 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface FastEthernet1/0
ip address 192.168.23.1 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
router eigrp 10
network 172.16.0.0
network 192.168.12.0
network 192.168.23.0
auto-summary
!
ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
control-plane

!
line con 0
logging synchronous
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
!
!
end

dear:

i am big fun of your work i would be glad if u male solution video for all EIGRP,OSPF, an routing IGP

Hi,

Where can i watch the video for this lab?

guys, this is not directly related to the topic..but had a little problem lately on how to save my gns3 labs then load it..but i had it sorted out...just curious on the working folder that is created after you save a project...what is that folder for? when opening up a project, we just need to import the configs right? and has nothing to do with the working folder? what are the uses of the files in the working folder?

Hello Rito,

I haven't recorded the solution yet. What part are you stuck on?

You only need the the topology .NET file and the configs. You don't need the working directory. I'm not 100% sure what it is used for but I believe to save your "disk" files and such files. Just forget about the "working" folder

Hi Rene,
I have a couple of questions here.

-when setting up loopback addresses on the 3 routers, are the commands:
ip address 172.16.x.0 255.255.255.0 on each router or do you assign a host? I'm confused because my configurations were 172.16.x.0 255.255.255.0, but when i checked the attached zip file and run the configurations, the loopback addresses were 172.16.x.x with /24 mask

"You notice that when you start a ping from router Y's loopback to the loopback of router X that this is not possible, you need to fix the problem."
-Is this resolved by changing the mask of the 3 loopbacks to /32 (i was able to ping all the loopback addresses, with my 3 loopbacks set to 172.16.x.0 /24 originally, by changing the mask to /32)

"Change the bandwidth so traffic from router Z to router Y's loopback interface uses the link between X and Z."
-I tried increasing the bandwidth of f0/0 on router Z but the traffic still goes through f1/0 on router Z.

"Change the EIGRP configuration on all routers so load and reliability are also used as metrics."
-Can you show how is this done?

Hi Rito,

If you create a loopback interface you can configure an IP address just like a normal interface. You need to type 172.16.X.X /24 because that's an IP address. 172.16.X.0 / 24 would be a network address.

EIGRP by default will auto-summarize meaning any 172.16.X.X /24 network will be advertised as 172.16.0.0 /16. This will cause trouble if you try to ping from one router to another. Changing the subnet mask will not help if you have "auto-summary" enabled.

EIGRP by default will use bandwidth and delay as its metric. You can take a look at the current best route (successor) to see what the metric is. Play around with the bandwidth until another route has a better metric and you will see a change.

You need to change the K-values. Under the EIGRP configuration you can use the

command to enable them:

K1 = bandwidth
K2 = load
K3 = delay
K4 = reliability
K5 = MTU

Hello Rene,
first of all thanks for the lab which I'm enjoying doing it and learning new stuff. I found some videos missing in the lab, can you upload it please.
thanks again,
Shyam

Hi Rene,

Thanks for this. I'll check this out.

Am I supposed to manually summarize the EIGRP routes?

Example:
ip summary-address eigrp 100 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0

I could not ping any 172.168 route with auto-summary even with router 2 shut down.

Which step do you mean? This one?

Once auto-summary is enabled you might face routing issues because networks are advertised as 172.16.0.0/16.

You could disable auto-summary but creating a specifix summary yourself can also solve the issue.

I was registered today at this site and is really awesome!.

Thanks a lot for the material.

Thanks for your comment and your welcome