Solved: Changing the AD of a route to a subnet in EIGRP and failover.

Chris Izatt · ‎11-18-2014

If I run the commands below to force traffic that path and a link goes down will the traffic still failover to the next FC in the EIGRP topo? Is there a better way to force a route in EIGRP when the metric is higher? I am open for suggestions on proper ways to do this.

access-list 99 permit 10.1.3.0 0.0.0.255

router eigrp 1
distance 89 10.1.2.4 0.0.0.0 99

Thanks

John Blakley · ‎11-18-2014

If you're learning this route from another host, you can lower the metric with an offset list instead of changing the AD of the route. If you get it lower than the current successor, it should be put into the routing table for you and leave the other successor as an FS. (I haven't labbed this up yet...)

Actually, I labbed this up and doesn't work the way I intended. You would have to increase the metric of every other route for this method to work. Let me play around with some other ideas...

HTH,

John

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