How to hurt yourself with EIGRP

As long as all your routing nodes are Cisco branded, EIGRP (Cisco’s proprietary routing protocol) is very easy to implement. You pretty much just turn it on and it works, like the old Appletalk/phonenet networks in the pre-OSX days.

But if you have a machine that’s all loaded up with static routes, and you accidentally redistribute them back to the machine the routes point to, the network gets pretty loopy. Little network geek joke there.where she stops nobody knows

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