EIGRP Over the Top
The EIGRP Over the Top feature enables a single end-to-end routing domain between two or more Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) sites that are connected using a private or a public WAN connection. This module provides information about the EIGRP Over the Top feature and how to configure it.
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Information About EIGRP Over the Top
EIGRP Over the Top Overview
The EIGRP Over the Top feature enables a single end-to-end Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) routing domain that is transparent to the underlying public or private WAN transport that is used for connecting disparate EIGRP customer sites. When an enterprise extends its connectivity across multiple sites through a private or a public WAN connection, the service provider mandates that the enterprise use an additional routing protocol, typically the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), over the WAN links to ensure end-to-end routing. The use of an additional protocol causes additional complexities for the enterprise, such as additional routing processes and sustained interaction between EIGRP and the routing protocol to ensure connectivity, for the enterprise. With the EIGRP Over the Top feature, routing is consolidated into a single protocol (EIGRP) across the WAN, which provides the following benefits:
There is no dependency on the type of WAN connection used.
There is no dependency on the service provider to transfer routes.
There is no security threat because the underlying WAN has no knowledge of enterprise routes.
This feature simplifies dual carrier deployments and designs by eliminating the need to configure and manage EIGRP-BGP route distribution and route filtering between customer sites.
This feature allows easy transition between different service providers.
This feature supports both IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
How EIGRP Over the Top Works
The EIGRP Over the Top solution can be used to ensure connectivity between disparate Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) sites. This feature uses EIGRP on the control plane and Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP) encapsulation on the data plane to route traffic across the underlying WAN architecture. EIGRP is used to distribute routes between customer edge (CE) devices within the network, and the traffic forwarded across the WAN architecture is LISP encapsulated. Therefore, to connect disparate EIGRP sites, you must configure the neighbor command with LISP encapsulation on every CE in the network.
If your network has many CEs, then you can use EIGRP Route Reflectors (E-RRs) to form a half-mesh topology and ensure connectivity among all CEs in the network. An E-RR is an EIGRP peer that receives EIGRP route updates from CEs in the network and reflects these updates to other EIGRP CE neighbors without changing the next hop or metrics for the routes. An E-RR can also function as a CE in the network. You must configure E-RRs with the remote-neighbors source command to enable E-RRs to listen to unicast messages from peer CE devices and reflect the messages to other EIGRP CE neighbors. You must configure the CEs with the neighbor command to allow them to identify the E-RRs in their network and exchange routes with the E-RRs. Upon learning routes from E-RRs, the CEs install these routes into their routing information base (RIB). You can use dual or multiple E-RRs for redundancy. The CEs form adjacencies with all E-RRs configured in the network, thus enabling multihop remote neighborship amongst themselves.
Security Groups and SGTs
A security group is a grouping of users, endpoint devices, and resources that share access control policies. Security groups are defined by the administrator in the ACS. As new users and devices are added to the Cisco TrustSec (CTS) domain, the authentication server assigns these new entities to appropriate security groups. CTS assigns to each security group a unique 16-bit security group number whose scope is global within a CTS domain. The number of security groups in the router is limited to the number of authenticated network entities. Security group numbers do not need to be manually configured.
Once a device is authenticated, CTS tags any packet that originates from that device with an SGT that contains the security group number of the device. The packet carries this SGT throughout the network within the CTS header. The SGT is a single label that determines the privileges of the source within the entire CTS domain. The SGT is identified as the source because it contains the security group of the source. The destination device is assigned a destination group tag (DGT).
 Note |
The CTS packet tag does not contain the security group number of the destination device.
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EIGRP OTP Support
to Propagate SGT
The EIGRP OTP
Support enables to propagate SGT from site-to-site across WAN using OTP
transport. OTP uses LISP to send the data traffic. OTP carries the SGT over the
Layer 3 (L3) clouds across multiple connections/network and also provides
access control at a remote site.
How to Configure EIGRP Over the Top
Configuring EIGRP Over the Top on a CE Device
You must enable the EIGRP Over the Top feature on all customer edge (CE) devices in the network so that the CEs know how to reach the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Route Reflector configured in the network. Perform the following task to configure the EIGRP Over the Top feature on a CE device and enable Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP) encapsulation for traffic across the underlying WAN.
SUMMARY STEPS1.
enable
2.
configure terminal
3.
router eigrp virtual-name
4.
address-family ipv4 autonomous-system as-number
5.
neighbor{ip-address | ipv6-address} interface-type interface-number [remote maximum-hops [lisp-encap [lisp-id]]]
6.
network
ip-address[wildcard-mask]
7.
end
DETAILED STEPS | Command or Action | Purpose |
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Step 1 |
enable
Example:
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Enables privileged EXEC mode.
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Step 2 |
configure terminal
Example:
Device# configure terminal
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Enters global configuration mode.
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Step 3 |
router eigrp virtual-name
Example:
Device(config)# router eigrp test
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Configures an EIGRP routing process and enters router configuration mode.
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Step 4 |
address-family ipv4 autonomous-system as-number
Example:
Device(config-router)# address-family ipv4 autonomous-system 100
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Enters address family configuration mode and configures an EIGRP routing instance.
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Step 5 |
neighbor{ip-address | ipv6-address} interface-type interface-number [remote maximum-hops [lisp-encap [lisp-id]]]
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.0.0.1 gigabitethernet 0/0/1 remote 2 lisp-encap 1
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Defines a neighboring device with which an EIGRP device can exchange routing information.
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Step 6 |
network
ip-address[wildcard-mask]
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0
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Specifies the network for the EIGRP routing process. In this case, configure all routes that the CE needs to be aware of.
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Step 7 |
end
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# end
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Exits address family configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.
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Configuring EIGRP Route Reflectors
Perform this task to configure a customer edge (CE) device in a network to function as an Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Route Reflector.
SUMMARY STEPS1.
enable
2.
configure
terminal
3.
router eigrp
virtual-name
4.
address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system
as-number
5.
af-interface interface-type interface-number
6.
no next-hop-self
7.
no split-horizon
8.
exit
9.
remote-neighbors source
interface-type interface-number
unicast-listen lisp-encap
10.
network
ip-address
11.
end
DETAILED STEPS | Command or Action | Purpose |
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Step 1 |
enable
Example:
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Enables privileged EXEC mode.
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Step 2 |
configure
terminal
Example:
Device# configure terminal
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Enters global configuration mode.
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Step 3 |
router eigrp
virtual-name
Example:
Device(config)# router eigrp test
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Configures an EIGRP routing process and enters router configuration mode.
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Step 4 |
address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system
as-number
Example:
Device(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system 100
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Enters address family configuration mode and configures an EIGRP routing instance.
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Step 5 |
af-interface interface-type interface-number
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# af-interface gigabitethernet 0/0/1
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Enters address family interface configuration mode and configures interface-specific EIGRP commands.
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Step 6 |
no next-hop-self
Example:
Device(config-router-af-interface)# no next-hop-self
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Instructs EIGRP to use the received next hop and not the local outbound interface address as the next hop to be advertised to neighboring devices.
Note
| If no next-hop-self is not configured, the data traffic will flow through the EIGRP Route Reflector.
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Step 7 |
no split-horizon
Example:
Device(config-router-af-interface)# no split-horizon
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Disables EIGRP split horizon.
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Step 8 |
exit
Example:
Device(config-router-af-interface)# exit
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Exits address family interface configuration mode and returns to address family configuration mode.
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Step 9 |
remote-neighbors source
interface-type interface-number
unicast-listen lisp-encap
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# remote-neighbors source gigabitethernet 0/0/1 unicast-listen lisp-encap
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Enables remote neighbors to accept inbound connections from any remote IP address.
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Step 10 |
network
ip-address
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.0.0
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Specifies a network for the EIGRP routing process.
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Step 11 |
end
Example:
Device(config-router-af)# end
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Exits address family configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode
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Configuring EIGRP
OTP Support to Propagate SGT
SUMMARY STEPS1.
enable
2.
configure terminal
3.
router
eigrp
virtual instance name
4.
address-family ipv4
autonomous-system
as-number
5.
topology base
6.
cts propagate
sgt
7.
end
DETAILED STEPS | Command or Action | Purpose |
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Step 1 |
enable
Example:
Device> enable
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Enables
privileged EXEC mode.
- Enter your password if
prompted.
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Step 2 | configure terminal
Example:
Device# configure terminal
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Enters global
configuration mode.
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Step 3 | router
eigrp
virtual instance name
Example:
Device (config)# router eigrp kmd
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Configures an
EIGRP routing process and enters router configuration mode.
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Step 4 | address-family ipv4
autonomous-system
as-number
Example:
Device (config-router)# address-family ipv4 autonomous-system 100
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Enters
address family configuration mode and configures an EIGRP routing instance.
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Step 5 | topology base
Example:
Device (config-router-af)# topology base
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Configures an EIGRP process
to route IP traffic under the specified topology instance and enters address
family topology configuration mode.
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Step 6 | cts propagate
sgt
Example:
Device (config-router-af)# cts propagate sgt
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Enables Security Group Tag
(SGT) propagation over L3 network.
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Step 7 | end
Example:
Device (config-router-af)# end
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Exits address
family topology configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.
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Configuration Examples for EIGRP Over the Top
Example: Configuring EIGRP Over the Top on a CE Device
The following example shows you how to configure the customer edge (CE) device in the network to advertise local routes to the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Route Reflectors.
Device> enable
Device# configure terminal
Device(config)# router eigrp test
Device(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system 100
Device(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.0.0.2 gigabitethernet 0/0/1 remote 3 lisp-encap 1
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.0.0
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.1.0
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.2.0
Device(config-router-af)# end
Example: Configuring EIGRP Route Reflectors
Device> enable
Device# configure terminal
Device(config)# router eigrp test
Device(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system 100
Device(config-router-af)# af-interface gigabitethernet 0/0/1
Device(config-router-af-interface)# no next-hop-self
Device(config-router-af-interface)# no split-horizon
Device(config-router-af-interface)# exit
Device(config-router-af)# remote-neighbors source gigabitethernet 0/0/1 unicast-listen lisp-encap 1
Device(config-router-af)# network 192.168.0.0
Device(config-router-af)# end
Example:
Configuring EIGRP OTP Support to Propagate SGT
The following
example shows how to configure EIGRP OTP to propagate SGT.
router eigrp kmd
!
address-family ipv4 unicast autonomous-system 100
!
topology base
cts propagate sgt
exit-af-topology
exit-address-family
Feature Information for
EIGRP Over the Top
The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.
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Table 1 Feature Information for
EIGRP Over the Top
Feature
Name
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Releases
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Feature
Information
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EIGRP Over
the Top
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The EIGRP
Over the Top feature enables a single end-to-end routing domain between two or
(EIGRP) more Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol sites that are
connected using a private or public WAN connection. EIGRP OTP also supports the
propagation of SGT over L3 network.
The
following commands were introduced or modified:
remote-neighbor (EIGRP),
neighbor
(EIGRP),
cts propagate sgt
,and
show ip eigrp
neighbors.
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