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EIGRP Summarization Guide

By default, EIGRP has auto summarization enabled which summarizes routes into classful boundaries between networks. This can cause issues with discontiguous networks, so auto summarization is typically disabled with the "no auto-summary" command. Manual summarization allows aggregating multiple specific routes into a single summary route on any router within a network to reduce routing table sizes. This is configured on a per-interface basis using the "ip summary-address" command.

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EIGRP Summarization Guide

By default, EIGRP has auto summarization enabled which summarizes routes into classful boundaries between networks. This can cause issues with discontiguous networks, so auto summarization is typically disabled with the "no auto-summary" command. Manual summarization allows aggregating multiple specific routes into a single summary route on any router within a network to reduce routing table sizes. This is configured on a per-interface basis using the "ip summary-address" command.

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EIGRPautomatic&manualsummarization

Bydefault,EIGRPhasautosummaryfeatureenabled.Becauseofthis,routes
aresummarizedtoclassfuladdressatnetworkboundariesintheroutingupdates.
Tobetterunderstandtheconceptofautosummarization,considerthefollowing
example.

RouterR1andR2arerunningEIGRP.RouterR1hasthelocallyconnected
subnet10.0.1.0/24thatisadvertisedtotherouterR2.Becauseoftheauto
summaryfeature,therouterR1summarizesthenetwork10.0.1.0/24before
sendingtheroutetoR2.Withtheautosummaryfeatureturnedon,R1sendsthe
classfulroute10.0.0.0/8toR2insteadofthemorespecific10.0.1.0/24route.
OnR1,wehaveconfiguredthefollowingnetworkstatement:

ButR2receivestheroutetotheclassfulnetwork10.0.0.0/8:

Theautosummaryfeaturecancauseproblemswithdiscontiguousnetworks.This
iswhythisfeatureisusuallyturnedoff.Thisisdonebyusingthenoauto
summarycommand:

NowR2hastheclasslessroutetoreachthesubnet10.0.1.0/24:

NOTEaftertypingthenoautosummarycommand,aneighborrelationshiphas
tobereestablished.

OneoftheadvantagesofEIGRPoverotherroutingprotocol(likeOSPF)isthat
manualsummarizationcanbedoneonanyrouterwithinanetwork.Asingleroute
canbeusedtorepresentmultipleroutes,whichreducesthesizeofroutingtables
inanetwork.

Manualsummarizationisconfiguredonaperinterfacebasis.Thesyntaxofthe
commandis:
(configif)ipsummaryaddresseigrpASNSUMMARY_ADDRESS
SUBNET_MASK

Anexamplewillhelpyoutounderstandthis.

RouterR1andR2arerunningEIGRP.RouterR1hastwodirectlyconnected
subnets:10.0.0.0/24and10.0.1.0/24.EIGRPadvertisesthesesubnetsastwo
separateroutes.R2nowhastworoutesfortwosubnets,whichcanbeconfirmed
byusingtheshowiproutecommandonR2:

WecouldconfigureR1stoadvertiseonlyonesummaryrouteforbothsubnets,
whichhelpsreduceR2sroutingtable.Todothis,thefollowingcommandcould
beused:

Now,R1issendingonlyoneroutetoreachbothsubnetstoR2.Wecanverify
thatbyusingtheshowiproutecommandonR2:

NowR2hasonlyoneroutetoreachbothsubnetsonR1.

NOTEintheexampleabove,theipsummarycommandincludedtwosubnets
onR1,butalsosomeotheraddressesthatarenotinthesesubnets.Therangeof
thesummarizedaddressesis10.0.0.010.0.255.255,soR2thinksthatR1has
theroutesforalladdressesinsidethatrange.Thatcouldcausesomeproblemsif
theseaddressesexistsomewhereelseinthenetwork.

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