This tutorial is intended as an introduction to EIGRP.

It assumes that the student is familiar with various Routing Protocols. Design a networking scheme you have only been allocated 1 network address which is 192.168.0.X. Allow for 50 hosts on the Paris Router and 25 on the Warsaw Router.

Step 1 Configure the routers
On the routers, enter the global configuration mode and configure the hostname as shown in the table. Then configure the console, virtual terminal and enable passwords. Next configure the interfaces according to the chart. Finally, configure the IP hostnames. Do not configure the routing protocols.

Step 2 Configure the hosts with the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway
a. Each workstation should be able to ping the attached router. Troubleshoot as necessary. Remember to assign a specific IP address and default gateway to the workstation. Check by using the ipconfig command in a DOS window.
b. At this point the workstations will not be able to communicate with each other. The following steps will demonstrate the process required to get communication working using EIGRP as the routing protocol.

Step 3 View the routers configuration and interface information
Paris#show running-config
a. Using the show ip interface brief command, check the status of each interface.
b. Ping from one of the connected serial interfaces to the other - troubleshoot the routers configuration, until the ping is successful.

Step 4 Configure EIGRP routing on router Paris

a. Enable the EIGRP routing process on Paris, and configure the networks it will advertise. Use EIGRP autonomous system number 101.
Paris(config)#router eigrp 101
Paris(config-router)#network (ip address + Wild Card Mask of Fast ethernet network)
Paris(config-router)#network (ip address + Wild Card Maskof Serial network)
Paris(config-router)#network (ip address + Wild Card Mask of Loopback network)
Paris(config-router)#end
b. Show the routing table for the Paris router.
Paris#showip route

Step 5 Configure EIGRP routing on router Warsaw

a. Enable the EIGRP routing process on Warsaw, and configure the networks it will advertise. Use EIGRP autonomous system number 101.

Warsaw(config)#router eigrp 101
Warsaw(config-router)# network (ip address + Wild Card Mask of Fastethernet network )
Warsaw(config-router)# (ip address + Wild Card Maskof Serial network)
Warsaw(config-router)#end

b. Show the routing table for the Warsaw router.
Warsaw#showip route

Step 6 Show EIGRP neighbors

a. From the Paris router show any neighbors connected using the show ipeigrpneighbors command at the privileged EXEC mode prompt.

Step 7 View the topology table

a. To view the topology table, issue the show ipeigrp topology all-links command.

b. How many routes are in passive mode? _______________________________

c. To view more specific information about a topology table entry, use : Paris#showipeigrp topology (ip address of Serial network)

d. Does the output of this command tell you what external protocol originated this route to (ip address of Fast ethernet network on Warsaw)?_________________________

e. Does it tell which router originated the route?______________________________

f. Use show commands to view key EIGRP statistics. On the Paris router, issue the show ipeigrp traffic command.

g. How many hello packets has the Paris router received? ______________________

h. By using show interface for Serial, PC & Server fill in this information:

Hardware is .............Bandwidth ......... Delay ......... Reliability ......... txload ......... rxload ......... Encapsulation .........

Use show shipeigrp topology (using ip address) to find the Composite metric _____

Task 1- Lab Practical report (1500 words)

You will be presented with a lab practical too complete, from this practical you are to produce a technical report of 1500 words (± 10%). This must not be a commentary on the steps taken to complete the task but a reflection on the implementation of the practical, any issues you had and the technology used. Your report must be referenced using IEEE format.

Guidance:

You will work individually on this assignment. You must include clear references for any material you have used in your research, using the IEEE referencing system. The report will be 1500 words (± 10%) long, not including diagrams, tables, references, etc.