08-24-2007 08:26 AM - edited 03-03-2019 06:27 PM
What makes a route show up as an external eigrp route vs an internal eigrp route other than the obivious; distribution from another routing protocol or another AS? What triggers the external flag?
08-24-2007 08:36 AM
Hi,
External routes are routes learned via redistribution (either from another routing protocol or another AS), and i don't think that there exits another method to trigger the external flag.
HTH,
Mohammed Mahmoud.
08-24-2007 09:30 AM
Possibility a "circular" answer, but anything the routing protocol considers "external" to its inner workings probably is tagged external. By inner workings, I have in mind having knowledge of the topology and in conjunction some cost metric for that topology.
Something "external" often is information provided to a routing protocol that it couldn't calculate. Your example of redistribution meets this test.
Although you asked about EIGRP, OSPF is a more interesting example because it not only has different external types, but can even tag inter area routes different from "normal" intra area routes.
08-24-2007 10:13 AM
""distribution from another routing protocol or another AS? What triggers the external flag?""
Both. Redistribution from another AS and another protocol/process would cause the route to show up as an External EIGRP route.
HTH
Sundar
08-27-2007 05:41 AM
Thanks everyone but I actually figured out what I was missing shortly after I posted this question. I was looking at a couple of route table entries that were showing up as external eigrp routes even though they were in the same AS. I completely missed the "redistribute connected" on one of the routers which explained the external flag.
Thanks,
Mike
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