This document discusses redistributing routes between OSPF and EIGRP routing protocols. There are two types of external routes when redistributing into OSPF - E1 and E2. E1 routes are redistributed with the default metric plus the internal OSPF cost, while E2 routes are redistributed with the default metric unchanged. The example topology redistributes routes between two EIGRP domains into an OSPF domain, marking one set of redistributed routes as E1 and the other as E2. Verification commands are provided to check the redistribution.

1. Redistribution into OSPF
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2. There are similarities and differences when compared to EIGRP redistribution.
OSPF does have default metrics but in EIGRP must set them. Both of them mark routes
as being External. When make redistribution into OSPF external routes can be of two
types: E1 and E2.
OSPF uses LSAs to represent external routes and apply a different logic to calculate
routes to external subnets..

4. we have two types of external routes: E1 and E2. Those marked E2 will be
redistributed with Default Metric unchanged an will ignore internal OSPF cost (except
when there is a need to break ties for best route). For those marked with E1, OSPF
will take Default Metric and will add to it internal cost to reach ASBR.
Default Metric for routes taken from BGP is 1, for routes taken from another OSPF
process will use the source route’s metric, and for all other sources will use default
metric equal to 20.
In the topology we have two EIGPR domains and one OSPF domain. we will make
redistribution of routes from EIGRP domain 1 as E1 routes and from EIGRP domain 2
as E2.
To each EIGRP domain we attached two loopback interfaces, so after we configure
redistribution on R2 we should have external routes to them.

5. R1
R1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
R1(config-if)#description to R3
R1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.0.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
R1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/1
R1(config-if)#description to R4
R1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.30.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
R1(config)#interface FastEthernet1/0
R1(config-if)#description to R2
R1(config-if)#ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
R1(config)#router eigrp 1
R1(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.255
R1(config-router)#no auto-summary
R1(config)#router eigrp 2
R1(config-router)#network 172.16.30.0 0.0.0.255
R1(config-router)#no auto-summary
R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#network 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

6. R2
R2(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
R2(config-if)#description to R1
R2(config-if)#ip address 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0
R2(config-if)#no shutdown
R2(config)#router ospf 1
R2(config-router)#network 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

7. R3 R3(config)#interface Loopback0
R3(config-if)#ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
R3(config)#interface Loopback1
R3(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
R3(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
R3(config-if)#description to R1
R3(config-if)#ip address 172.16.0.2 255.255.255.0
R3(config-if)#no shutdown
R3(config)#router eigrp 1
R3(config-router)# network 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.255
R3(config-router)# network 192.168.0.0
R3(config-router)# network 192.168.1.0
R3(config-router)# no auto-summary

8. R4 R4(config)#interface Loopback0
R4(config-if)#ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
R4(config)#interface Loopback1
R4(config-if)#ip address 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.0
R4(config)#interface FastEthernet0/0
R4(config-if)#ip address 172.16.30.2 255.255.255.0
R4(config-if)#no shutdown
R4(config)#router eigrp 2
R4(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0
R4(config-router)#network 192.168.2.0
R4(config-router)#network 192.168.3.0
R4(config-router)#no auto-summary

9. Now R1 should be EIGRP neighbor with R3 and R4, also R1 with R2 should be OSPF
neighbors.
Check them with show ip eigrp neighbors and show ip ospf neighbor commands.
Further we will add redistribution commands on R1 to import routes in OSPF domain.
Routes learned from EIGRP domain 1 will be marked with E1, from EIGRP domain 2
will be marked with E2.

10. R1
R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)# redistribute eigrp 1 metric-type 1 subnets
R1(config-router)# redistribute eigrp 2 metric-type 2 subnets
R3
R3(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0
R4
R4(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0
Keyword subnet highlighted in bold
it’s important because without it
OSPF will make redistribution of only
classful subnets. If we do not type
metric type it will be E2, this is
default metric type. It’s time to
check what we got. I put on R3 and
R4 default routes to point all
unknown traffic to R1 (in our case it
will be traffic to R2).

11. Wecanseeoutput of“showiproute”onR2

12. As we can see in the previous slide picture redistribution has worked, Routes
redistributed from first EIGRP domain are marked as E1 and have cost of 30 which is
the sum of the default metric (20) and 10 Mb/s link cost (10) that connects R1 with
R2.
Routes learned from second EIGRP domain are marked with E2 and have cost of 20
(default metric).

13. ping from R2 to R3 loopback interface

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