CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals Fourth Edition

CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals Fourth Edition Chapter 8 Advanced Routing Protocols

Objectives • Describe classful and classless routing protocols • Describe and configure RIPv2 • Describe and configure EIGRP • Describe and configure OSPF • Control routing traffic CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Classful and Classless Routing Protocols • Classful routing protocols • Summarize networks to their major network boundaries (Class A, B, or C) • Do not carry subnet mask information in their routing table updates • Cannot be used in networks with either discontiguous subnets or networks using variable length subnet masks (VLSM) • Examples: RIPv1 and IGRP CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Classful and Classless Routing Protocols (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Classful and Classless Routing Protocols (continued) • Classless routing protocols • Allow dynamic routing in discontiguous networks • Carry subnet mask information in the routing table updates • Examples: RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Routing Information Protocol version 2 • RIPv2 is a set of extensions to RIPv1 • Still a distance-vector routing protocol that uses the normal measures of hold-down timers and split horizon to prevent routing loops • Suffers from RIPv1’s major drawback • The major change from RIPv1 is RIPv2’s ability to carry subnet mask information • RIPv2 multicasts its updates using the multicast address of 224.0.0.9 • RIPv2 provides a way to authenticate routing peers to provide enhanced security to a network CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Routing Information Protocol version 2 (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Routing Information Protocol version 2 (continued) • Another enhancement of RIPv2: ability to authenticate routing peers • Configuring RIPv2 authentication requires the following steps: • Define a key chain • Define keys in the key chain • Enable authentication on the interface by specifying the key chain to be used • Enable either clear text or MD5 authentication • Manage the keys (optional key lifetimes) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol • Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) • A Cisco proprietary classless protocol designed to overcome the limitations found in IGRP • Still a distance-vector routing protocol at its core • Protocol Dependent Modules (PDMs) • Allow EIGRP to carry multiple routed protocols within their own native packet formats • EIGRP uses nonperiodic, partial, and bounded routing table updates CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (continued) • EIGRP makes use of a composite metric comprised of six different factors: • Hops, Load, Bandwidth, Reliability, Delay, MTU • By default, the formula used for metric calculation in EIGRP is: Metric = [(K1*Bandwidth + (K2*Bandwidth)/(256-load) + K3*Delay)*K5/(reliability + K4)]*256 CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components • Protocol Dependent Modules (PDM) • Allow EIGRP to support multiple Network layer routed protocols • Neighbor discovery and maintenance • Allow EIGRP to discover neighbors and keep track of their status • EIGRP must be able to keep updates bounded, sent only to those peers that need the information • EIGRP must build a neighbor table of directly connected peers CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components (continued) • Reliable Transport Protocol (RTP) • Because EIGRP is protocol-independent, it cannot use existing Transport layer protocols to carry its various packet types • Instead, Cisco developed an entirely new layer 4 protocol • RTP can actually provide both reliable and unreliable delivery • Routing table updates are an example of an EIGRP packet type that uses reliable multicast via RTP CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components (continued) • Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL) • The heart and soul of EIGRP • Allows EIGRP to quickly recover from a link outage and route around network problems • Key terms associated with DUAL • Successor • Feasible distance (FD) • Reported distance (RD) • Feasible successor • Feasibility condition • Adjacency CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components (continued) • DUAL uses the EIGRP topology table to track the status of all links in a network • The EIGRP topology table contains information about all the networks a router can reach • The show ip eigrp topology command • Displays information garnered from the DUAL process CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Components (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Configuration • EIGRP configuration is nearly identical to IGRP configuration • EIGRP is classless • However, it summarizes to classful network boundaries by default • The no auto-summary command turns off this default behavior • Highly recommended to use the bandwidth command to set the actual bandwidth on serial links CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Configuration (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

EIGRP Configuration (continued) • EIGRP supports optional authentication of routing peers • Configuring EIGRP authentication requires the following steps: • Define a key chain • Define keys in the key chain • Enable authentication on the interface by specifying the key chain to be used • Manage the keys (optional key lifetimes) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Open Shortest Path First • Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) • An open standards, link-state routing protocol that supports classless routing, variable-length subnet masks, and authentication • Link-state routing protocols allow routers to share a common view of the entire network • Each router sends out link-state advertisements (LSAs) describing its attached links to all routers in an area • Each router needs to hold a topological database of the entire area CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Open Shortest Path First (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Open Shortest Path First (continued) • OSPF is ideally suited for large networks • Uses a concept known as areas to bound link-state advertisements • An area is the portion of a network within which LSAs are contained • All OSPF routers configured with the same area identification will accept LSAs from one another CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

OSPF Concepts • Link • A router’s interface • Link-state • The status of a link on a router • Area • Defines the confines within which LSAs are contained • Cost • The default metric for OSPF CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

OSPF Concepts (continued) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

OSPF Concepts (continued) • Adjacencies database • Contains information about all OSPF peers with which a router has successfully exchanged Hello packets • Topological database • Holds the common view of the network formed from the link-state advertisements that are received • Designated routers (DRs) • Backup designated routers (BDRs) CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals Fourth Edition