however, as has been suggested by Louie Belt and my example shown here:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/103/eigrp4.html
it seems that the network statement has been changed in the latest
releases..........
Kevin Wigle
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Neiberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 December, 2000 18:13
Subject: Re: EIGRP
> The 'network' statement in EIGRP is classful and accepts only the network
> number with no mask. You cannot specify subnets in the network statement,
> as all subnet masks fall on classful boundaries.
>
> In your case, "network 200.1.1.0" is all that you can enter. By default,
> any interface in the 200.1.1.0/24 subnet would participate in EIGRP,
> regardless of that interface's actual subnet mask.
>
> 'ip classless' and 'ip subnet-zero' have no bearing on this. EIGRP is
> classless, but the network statement itself is classful. I have no idea
> why.
>
> Remember that in EIGRP, the network statement specifies which interfaces
> participate in routing, not which networks are advertised.
>
> Let's say you have two interfaces, 200.1.1.1/29 and 200.1.1.9/29. If your
> network statement is 'network 200.1.1.0', then both of those interfaces
will
> participate, but the actual /29 networks will be advertised, just as you
> would expect.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> > Group,
> >
> > In the lab again looking at a scenario.
> >
> > At first, I configured a transit link with a /24 mask.
> >
> > Later I thought - gee that's going to be a /29 or /30 in real life so I
> went
> > to change it.
> >
> > However, the router wouldn't accept "network 200.1.1.0 0.0.0.7" under
> > "router eigrp 10". It fails with the caret pointing at the first zero
in
> > the wildcard mask.
> >
> > doing a "?" after "network 200.1.1.0" just comes up with a <cr>.
> >
> > However, on CCO I see examples of both statements - some with the mask
> > others without.
> >
> > Has the behavior of EIGRP changed lately even so that CCO has
conflicting
> > examples or am I missing some connection?
> >
> > All routers have ip classless and ip subnet-zero configured.
> >
> > By the way, my lab scenario has OSPF redistributing the EIGRP. Looking
at
> an
> > upstream routing table it shows the EIGRP network as a /29 even though
> there
> > is no "mask" in the statement.
> >
> > So what am I missing?
> >
> > Kevin Wigle
> >
> >
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