Simple EIGRP in MPLS VPN networks

A few days ago I've been involved in an interesting EIGRP-within-MPLS/VPN troubleshooting session. I wanted to reproduce the behavior in the lab, so I set up a simple EIGRP lab … and realized that it's been a while since we wrote the MPLS and VPN Architectures, Volume II, which covers EIGRP used as PE-CE routing protocol. To make things more interesting, a few details have changed in the meantime; you have to configure the following features to get EIGRP running within MPLS/VPN environment:

  • The autonomous-system command within the VRF address family is mandatory, even if the VRF AS number matches the EIGRP process number.
  • The default BGP-to-EIGRP redistribution metric has to be configured, otherwise remote EIGRP routes will not be redistributed even though they have EIGRP metric encoded in extended BGP communities.
  • Things work best if you disable auto-summary on PE-routers.

You can find more details and complete configuration examples in the EIGRP in MPLS VPN networks article I wrote in the CT3 wiki.

Posted by Ivan Pepelnjak on Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354, is the chief technology advisor for NIL Data Communications. He has been designing and implementing large-scale data communications networks as well as teaching and writing books about advanced technologies since 1990. See his full profile, contact him or visit his page on Facebook.