I need to retract some of my first response. I read last night that RIP automatically redistributes to EIGRP by default. So I wondered if IPX RIP would do the same. I could find precious little in any of the Cisco books that I have, but I did find this passage on page 621 of BSCN:
To add EIGRP to a Novell RIP and SAP network, configure EIGRP on the Cisco router interfaces that connect to other Cisco router also running EIGRP. Configure RIP and SAP on the interfaces that connect to Novell hosts or Novell routers that do not support EIGRP. With EIGRP configured, periodic SAP updates are replaced with EIGRP incremental updates when an EIGRP peer is found. However, note that unless RIP is explicitly disabled for an IPX network number, both RIP and EIGRP will be active on the interface associated with that network number.
And then on page 622…
When you configure EIGRP for incremental SAP updates, you can do the following:
Retain RIP, in which case only the reliable transport of EIGRP is used for sending incremental SAP updates. (this is the preferred configuration over bandwidth-sensitive connections)
Turn off RIP, in which case EIGRP replaced RIP as the routing protocol.
So I was dead wrong about EIGRP not coming into play. It doesn’t have to, but it certainly can. Pure IPX RIP might be a little easier though. No details in the book about what commands to use to set up the EIGRP incremental updates but I’m sure CCO has plenty on that subject.
Sorry for the misinformation. I was speaking only from (limited) experience where we always ran IPX RIP along side of any other routing protocol.
