How to configure EIGRP Summarization

In this lesson we’ll take a look at EIGRP summarization. The cool thing about EIGRP and summarization is that it’s easy to do and can be done on the interface level. Here’s the topology that we’ll use:

Let’s create a basic EIGRP configuration:

R1(config)#router eigrp 1
R1(config-router)#no auto-summary 
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.12.0
R1(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0

R2(config)#router eigrp 1
R2(config-router)#no auto-summary 
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.12.0

Just a basic EIGRP configuration. This is what the routing table of R2 looks like:

R2#show ip route eigrp 
     172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 2 subnets
D       172.16.0.0 [90/30720] via 192.168.12.1, 00:02:28, FastEthernet0/0
D       172.16.1.0 [90/30720] via 192.168.12.1, 00:02:28, FastEthernet0/0

Two entries, as expected. Now let’s create that summary:

R1(config)#interface fastEthernet 2/0
R1(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 1 172.16.0.0 255.255.254.0

Use the ip summary-address eigrp command to specify the summary. Now the routing table will look like this: