In mail.net.groupstudy.pro, you wrote: > EIGRP is not an IETF standard. You said below that the spec if available, > but that's not true. Cisco has lots of documentaton on EIGRP but they have > not released a specification for it.
AFAIK there used to be another company who manufactured routers with an EIGRP functionality (!) years ago. A detailed spec isn't available but the packet format is available as are descriptions of the TLVs and the FSM. > The fact that EIGRP is not a standard means that it probably won't be able > to take advantage of new IETF work, or at least not as easily, and not with > so much input from engineers around the world. Yup. It's always been Cisco's very own special little friend. ;-) > By the way, EIGRP converges very quickly too. And it doesn't use load and > reliability in its metric by default. Also it passes MTU info around, but > MTU isn't part of the metric. In fact, figuring out exactly how a router > running EIGRP uses MTU is one of those things that you can't find a > specification on. Uh, true. Minimum path MTU obtained from the link is not used for calculation of the link metric. Some people (that I've seen) set K5 as MTU. // kaj Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62456&t=62419 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
