[AusNOG] Cisco Opens up EIGRP [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Tom Berryman tom at connectivityit.com.au
Thu Mar 28 19:07:46 EST 2013


EIGRP is great for customers with a few sites with multiple media types - very easy to deal with MTU differences for their internal IP space. About 6 months ago I moved our internal protocol to OSPF for multi-vendor support, the flexibly and control gain was the biggest win though. The pain was old Cisco 2800s that wouldn't take an MTU above 1500.
If I could maintain multi-vendor support and use EIGRP as a PE-CE protocol I would for sure.
Good on Cisco - but 5 years ago would have been great....
Tom

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Anthony Burke
Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013 6:36 PM
To: Colin Stubbs
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cisco Opens up EIGRP [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hey ausNOG,
Long time lurker, first time contributer.

This was discussed a few weeks back.
http://packetpushers.net/why-is-cisco-bothering-with-open-eigrp/
Russ White replied
http://packetpushers.net/thoughts-on-open-eigrp/
Donnie Savage, author of the draft, happily spoke about it to me over email if others are interested. He had plenty of time to chat and discuss.
And following the conversations, Donnie retweeted a friends post of OSPF vs EIGRP. Something worth reading - http://keepingitclassless.net/2013/03/a-contest-of-protocols-eigrp-or-ospf/
It would be interesting to see what everyone thinks. I personally see it as a vein attempt to regain lost ground.

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Anthony Burke
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Colin Stubbs <colin.stubbs at equatetechnologies.com.au<mailto:colin.stubbs at equatetechnologies.com.au>> wrote:

The draft itself isn't really clear about what Cisco has done or why.

The FAQ is here,

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6554/ps6599/ps6630/qa_C67-726299.html

-Colin


On 28 March 2013 13:36, Bruce Rosenberg <BruceRosenberg at nbnco.com.au<mailto:BruceRosenberg at nbnco.com.au>> wrote:

UNCLASSIFIED
Cisco have opened up EIGRP.

http://www.ietf.org/staging/draft-savage-eigrp-00.txt


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