IPv6 EIGRP

In this post we will try to configure IPv6 EIGRP see the different options for the protocol and how these options are almost identical to the IPv4 version of EIGRP

configuration

R1

ipv6 unicast-routing interface lo0 ipv6 address 2001:1:1::1/64 interface FastEthernet0/0  ipv6 address FE80::1 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:12::1/64 ! interface FastEthernet0/1  ipv6 address FE80::1 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:13::1/64 !

R2

ipv6 unicast-routing interface lo0 ipv6 address 2001:2:2::2/64 interface FastEthernet0/0  ipv6 address FE80::2 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:12::2/64 ! interface FastEthernet0/1  ipv6 address FE80::2 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:23::2/64

R3

ipv6 unicast-routing interface lo0 ipv6 address 2001:3:3::3/64 interface lo1 ipv6 address 2001:3:4::3/64 interface lo2 ipv6 address 2001:3:5::3/64 interface FastEthernet0/0  ipv6 address FE80::3 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:13::3/64 ! interface FastEthernet0/1  ipv6 address FE80::3 link-local  ipv6 address FC00:1:23::3/64

We will start off by enabling IPv6 on the three routers, the only way to enable eigrp IPv6 is under the interface level since network command under the process level is not supported

so on R1, R2 and R3

interf f0/0 ipv6 eigrp 1 ! interf f0/1 ipv6 eigrp 1 ! interf lo0 ipv6 eigrp 1

and on R3

interf lo1 ipv6 eigrp 1 ! interf lo2 ipv6 eigrp 1

we will check the IPv6 eigrp neighbors to make sure that we have adjacency on the three routers

R1#show ipv6 eigrp neighbors IPv6-EIGRP neighbors for process 1 % EIGRP 1 is in SHUTDOWN

This is the output of R1, SHUTDOWN means that the eigrp process it self is shutdown, this option is only available in eigrp and all new eigrp processes are shutdown by default, we need to un-shut the eigrp process

on R1, R2 and R3

ipv6 router eirgp 1 no shutdown

now let’s check if the the eigrp neighbors would come up now

R3#show ipv6 eigrp neighbors IPv6-EIGRP neighbors for process 1 % No router ID for EIGRP 1

if we check R1 and R2 we would see the same, no Router-ID and the reason is that EIGRP IPv6 and OSPV v3 is using the IPv4 32 bits router-id and because we don’t have any IPv4 interfaces configured and we haven’t configured router-ID manually the process couldn’t be started

we need to fix this on the three routers

R1(config)#ipv6 router eigrp 1 R1(config-rtr))#router-id 1.1.1.1 R2(config)#ipv6 router eigrp 1 R2(config-rtr)#router-id 2.2.2.2 R3(config)#ipv6 router eigrp 1 R3(config-rtr)#router-id 3.3.3.3

once we started configuring the router-id we should started seeing the eigrp neighbors coming up

on R1

R1(config-rtr)#do sh ipv6 eig ne IPv6-EIGRP neighbors for process 1 H   Address                 Interface       Hold Uptime   SRTT   RTO  Q  Seq                                             (sec)         (ms)       Cnt Num 1   Link-local address:     Fa0/1             14 00:12:40   30   200  0  8     FE80::3 0   Link-local address:     Fa0/0             13 00:12:55   41   246  0  10     FE80::2

and R2

R2(config)#do sh ipv6 eig nei IPv6-EIGRP neighbors for process 1 H   Address                 Interface       Hold Uptime   SRTT   RTO  Q  Seq                                             (sec)         (ms)       Cnt Num 1   Link-local address:     Fa0/1             10 00:00:13   39   234  0  9     FE80::3 0   Link-local address:     Fa0/0             13 00:08:13   41   246  0  11     FE80::1

All other EIGRP parameters remain the same from IPv4 EIGRP, variance, the K values used for the metric, one thing that we need to note is with the summary address we don’t have the leak-map option like in IPv4 EIGRP