Scenario Answers
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Scenario 4-1 Answers
| 1. | What needs to be done in addition to solve the problems caused by EIGRP? State the configuration commands necessary to activate this solution on Router A. |
| The WAN is a Frame Relay cloud, and Router A is the hub in the hub-and-spoke configuration. Each VC is 56 kbps.
In addition to readdressing the network, summarization would limit the query range of the routers. This would prevent the routes in the topology table being SIA, which seriously affects the performance of the network. The commands required are as follows: RouterA(config)# router eigrp 63 RouterA(config)# no auto-summary RouterA(config)# network 10.0.0.0 RouterA(config)# int serial 0 RouterA(config-if)# ip summary-address eigrp 63 10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 | |
| 2. | Give the commands to configure Router A for EIGRP over this NBMA cloud. |
The configuration on Router A is as follows:
RouterA(config)# interface serial 0 RouterA(config-if)# frame-relay encapsulation RouterA(config-if)# bandwidth 178 | |
| 3. | Give the commands to configure Router B for EIGRP over this NBMA cloud. |
The configuration on Router B is as follows:
RouterB(config)# interface serial 0 RouterB(config-if)# frame-relay encapsulation RouterB(config-if)# bandwidth 56 |
Scenario 4-2 Answers
| 1. | How much bandwidth has each circuit been allocated? Why was this value chosen by the administrator? |
| Because a maximum of 256 kbps is available, you cannot allow any individual PVC to handle more than 25 kbps (256/10). Note that EIGRP will not use more than 22.5 kbps (90 percent of 25 kbps) on this interface, even though its capacity is 56 kbps. This configuration will not affect user data capacity, which will still be able to use the entire 56 kbps, except when EIGRP is using 22 kbps. | |
| 2. | What bandwidth utilization is available to EIGRP? Why was this value chosen by the administrator? |
| Because this data rate is low, and because you do not expect very much user data traffic, you can allow EIGRP to use up to 90 percent of the bandwidth. | |
| 3. | If Router A fails, what would the effect be on the network? |
| If Router A fails, there would be no communication between the routers in the WAN because Router A is the hub. Each site would function, but they would all be isolated from each other. The neighbor tables would fail to hear the hellos from the other routers connecting to the WAN and would time out all routes that they had heard from these routers. The topology table would be updated, and the routers would send updates to all their other neighbors. | |
| 4. | Is summarization possible only on the routers entering the WAN cloud, or is it possible on the networks not shown in the figure, that are on the other side of the routers? Give reasons for your answers. |
| Summarization is possible on all interfaces in EIGRP, as long as the addressing scheme allows for it to be implemented. This is one of the major advantages of EIGRP over OSPF. OSPF can summarize only at ABRs. |
