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Prefered EIGRP route

olakayode
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I have EIGRP running with 2 links to a central site. I want to configure EIGRP to use one of the links as primary. Since EIGRP uses bandwidth as one of the metrics, I manually configured the BW on the interfaces but it still did not change to the link that is prefered. Want can do?

Cheers.

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rsissons
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Level 5

With fast switching enabled (the default), EIGRP will only load balance on a per session level, rather than a per packet level, so any session established over a link will not automatically switch to the lower cost link when the metric is changed which could explain what you are seeing.

It is actually recommended that you use the delay value, rather than the bandwidth, to change the EIGRP metric since this does not affect any figures or statistics calculated.