четверг, 25 октября 2012 г.

Configuring Floating Summary Routes

You can use a floating summary route when configuring the ip summary-address eigrp command. This enhancement was introduced in Cisco IOS Release 12.2. The floating summary route is created by applying a default route and administrative distance at the interface level. 

The default summary route is applied to interface with the following configuration:  
Router(config)# interface  
Router(config-if)# ip summary-address eigrp 10 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
The configuration of the default summary route on Router-1 sends a 0.0.0.0/0 summary route to Router-2 and blocks all other routes, including the all route, from being advertised to Router-2. However, this also generates a local discard route on Router-1, a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to the null 0 interface with an administrative distance of 5. When this route is created, it overrides the EIGRP learned default route. Router-1 will no longer be able to reach destinations that it would normally reach through the 0.0.0.0.0/0 route. 

This problem is resolved by applying a floating summary route to the interface on Router-1 that connects to Router-2. The floating summary route is applied by applying an administrative distance to the default summary route on the interface of Router-1 with the following statement: 

Router(config-if)# ip summary-address eigrp 10 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 250


  The administrative distance of 250, applied in the above statement, is now assigned to the discard route generated on Router-1. The 0.0.0.0/0 is learned through EIGRP and installed in the local routing table. Routing to Router-2 is restored.

  
The summary address is not advertised to the peer if the administrative distance is configured as 255