I want EIGRP to pick the MPLS not the DMVPN but it doesn't

[Brent Rockburn]

the MPLS is 10.66.0.1 it has better everyting but is still not preferred because of the "external" I think.

Can someone tell me how to make it the preferred route?

sxxxxxxxxxxx#sh ip eigrp topology 10.69.0.192/26
EIGRP-IPv4:(100) (AS 100): Topology Default-IP-Routing-Table(0) entry for 10.69.0.192/26
  State is Passive, Query origin flag is 1, 2 Successor(s), FD is 28416512
  Descriptor Blocks:
  10.66.0.5 (Vlan100), from 10.66.0.5, Send flag is 0x0
      Composite metric is (28416512/28416256), Route is Internal
      Vector metric:
        Minimum bandwidth is 100 Kbit
        Total delay is 110020 microseconds
        Reliability is 255/255
        Load is 155/255
        Minimum MTU is 1400
        Hop count is 3
  10.66.0.10 (Vlan100), from 10.66.0.10, Send flag is 0x0
      Composite metric is (28416512/28416256), Route is Internal
      Vector metric:
        Minimum bandwidth is 100 Kbit
        Total delay is 110020 microseconds
        Reliability is 255/255
        Load is 142/255
        Minimum MTU is 1400
        Hop count is 3
  10.66.0.1 (Vlan100), from 10.66.0.1, Send flag is 0x0
      Composite metric is (256512/256256), Route is External
      Vector metric:
        Minimum bandwidth is 10000 Kbit
        Total delay is 20 microseconds
        Reliability is 255/255
        Load is 1/255
        Minimum MTU is 1500
        Hop count is 1
      External data:
        Originating router is 142.96.27.14
        AS number of route is 65500
        External protocol is BGP, external metric is 0
        Administrator tag is 65500 (0x0000FFDC)

[Giuseppe Larosa · Accepted solution]

Hello Brent,

>> Can someone tell me how to make it the preferred route?

you should use a second EIGRP process for the DMVPN cloud and then you should redistribute it into main EIGRP process in order to change EIGRP routes coming from DMVPN EIGRP external too.

OR if this is an MPLS L3 VPN service you should check with MPLS SP if you can use EIGRP as PE-CE routing protocol instead of eBGP that you are probably using now. In these way EIGRP routes coming from the MPLS L3 VPN can appear as internal routes instead of external routes and they could be preferred over routes coming from DMVPN cloud.

Second approach requires cooperation of SP and may lead to additional fees on the MPLS service.

First approach has a greater impact as you need to change EIGRP AS numbers on several routers but it is totally under your control.

Hope to help

Giuseppe