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352-001 · Question #154

A very large enterprise customer is migrating from EIGRP to IS-IS. What is your main concern in regards to changes in the path packets take after the migration is complete?

The correct answer is B. the bandwidth and metrics of the links. When migrating from EIGRP to IS-IS, the primary concern for path changes is that the two protocols use fundamentally different metric calculations, which can cause traffic to follow different paths than before.

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Question

A very large enterprise customer is migrating from EIGRP to IS-IS. What is your main concern in regards to changes in the path packets take after the migration is complete?

Options

  • Athe redistribution points
  • Bthe bandwidth and metrics of the links
  • Cthe areas sizes
  • Dthe number of prefixes

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • A
    24% (7)
  • B
    55% (16)
  • C
    14% (4)
  • D
    7% (2)

Why each option

When migrating from EIGRP to IS-IS, the primary concern for path changes is that the two protocols use fundamentally different metric calculations, which can cause traffic to follow different paths than before.

Athe redistribution points

Redistribution points are a concern during the transition phase when both protocols coexist, not after full migration to IS-IS is complete.

Bthe bandwidth and metrics of the linksCorrect

EIGRP calculates its composite metric primarily using bandwidth and delay, with lower-bandwidth links weighted more heavily in the formula. IS-IS uses a simpler, administratively assigned cost (default 10 for all interfaces regardless of bandwidth), so the SPF shortest-path calculation may produce completely different results post-migration, causing unexpected traffic path shifts across the network.

Cthe areas sizes

Area size in IS-IS affects flooding scope and scalability but does not directly determine which paths packets will take between endpoints.

Dthe number of prefixes

The number of prefixes impacts memory and convergence time but does not directly determine the paths packets take after the metric-based SPF calculation.

Concept tested: EIGRP vs IS-IS metric calculation differences

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_isis/configuration/xe-16/irs-xe-16-book/irs-ovrvw-cfg.html

Topics

#EIGRP to IS-IS migration#routing metrics#path selection#IGP migration

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