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DMVPN Phase 3 EIGRP Routing

In the first DMVPN lesson we discussed the basics and the different phases. I also showed you how to configure DMVPN phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3. In this lesson we’ll take a look how we can configure EIGRP on a DMVPN phase 3 network.

Here’s the topology we will use:

DMVPN Example Topology with hub, two spokes and loopback interfaces.

Above we have a hub and two spoke routers. Each router has a loopback interface which we will advertise in EIGRP.

Configuration










Tunnel interfaces

Below you will find the configuration of the tunnel interfaces. This is a basic DMVPN phase 3 setup:

Hub(config)#interface Tunnel0
Hub(config-if)#ip address 172.16.123.1 255.255.255.0
Hub(config-if)#ip nhrp authentication DMVPN
Hub(config-if)#ip nhrp map multicast dynamic
Hub(config-if)#ip nhrp network-id 1
Hub(config-if)#tunnel source GigabitEthernet0/1
Hub(config-if)#tunnel mode gre multipoint
Hub(config-if)#ip nhrp redirect
Spoke1(config)#interface Tunnel0
Spoke1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.123.2 255.255.255.0
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp authentication DMVPN
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp map 172.16.123.1 192.168.123.1
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp map multicast 192.168.123.1
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp network-id 1
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp nhs 172.16.123.1
Spoke1(config-if)#tunnel source GigabitEthernet0/1
Spoke1(config-if)#tunnel mode gre multipoint
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp shortcut
Spoke2(config)#interface Tunnel0
Spoke2(config-if)#ip address 172.16.123.3 255.255.255.0
Spoke2(config-if)#ip nhrp authentication DMVPN
Spoke2(config-if)#ip nhrp map 172.16.123.1 192.168.123.1
Spoke2(config-if)#ip nhrp map multicast 192.168.123.1
Spoke2(config-if)#ip nhrp network-id 1
Spoke2(config-if)#ip nhrp nhs 172.16.123.1
Spoke2(config-if)#tunnel source GigabitEthernet0/1
Spoke2(config-if)#tunnel mode gre multipoint
Spoke1(config-if)#ip nhrp shortcut

Let’s do a quick test to make sure the hub has two NHRP registrations from the spoke routers:

Hub#show dmvpn 
Legend: Attrb --> S - Static, D - Dynamic, I - Incomplete
        N - NATed, L - Local, X - No Socket
        T1 - Route Installed, T2 - Nexthop-override
        C - CTS Capable
        # Ent --> Number of NHRP entries with same NBMA peer
        NHS Status: E --> Expecting Replies, R --> Responding, W --> Waiting
        UpDn Time --> Up or Down Time for a Tunnel
==========================================================================

Interface: Tunnel0, IPv4 NHRP Details 
Type:Hub, NHRP Peers:2, 

 # Ent  Peer NBMA Addr Peer Tunnel Add State  UpDn Tm Attrb
 ----- --------------- --------------- ----- -------- -----
     1 192.168.123.2      172.16.123.2    UP 00:00:04     D
     1 192.168.123.3      172.16.123.3    UP 00:00:03     D

That’s looking good, let’s do a quick ping:

Hub#ping 172.16.123.2
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.16.123.2, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 7/8/10 ms
Hub#ping 172.16.123.3
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.16.123.3, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 7/7/8 ms

Time to configure EIGRP…

EIGRP

First we advertise all tunnel interfaces and the loopback interfaces of the spoke routers in EIGRP:

Hub(config)#router eigrp 123
Hub(config-router)#no auto-summary 
Hub(config-router)#network 172.16.123.0 0.0.0.255
Spoke1(config)#router eigrp 123
Spoke1(config-router)#no auto-summary 
Spoke1(config-router)#network 172.16.123.0 0.0.0.255
Spoke1(config-router)#network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0
Spoke2(config)#router eigrp 123
Spoke2(config-router)#no auto-summary 
Spoke2(config-router)#network 172.16.123.0 0.0.0.255
Spoke2(config-router)#network 3.3.3.3 0.0.0.0

The spoke routers don’t require specific entries thanks to NHRP traffic indication. I will advertise a default route on the hub router:

Hub(config)#interface tunnel 0 
Hub(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 123 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

Let’s check the routing tables:

Hub#show ip route eigrp 

D*    0.0.0.0/0 is a summary, 00:00:19, Null0
      2.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets
D        2.2.2.2 [90/27008000] via 172.16.123.2, 00:01:19, Tunnel0
      3.0.0.0/32 is subnetted, 1 subnets
D        3.3.3.3 [90/27008000] via 172.16.123.3, 00:00:19, Tunnel0
Spoke1#show ip route eigrp 

D*    0.0.0.0/0 [90/28160000] via 172.16.123.1, 00:00:31, Tunnel0
Spoke2#show ip route eigrp 

D*    0.0.0.0/0 [90/28160000] via 172.16.123.1, 00:00:43, Tunnel0

The hub has two specific entries, the spoke routers only have a default route. Let’s see if direct spoke-to-spoke communication is possible:

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Forum Replies

  1. Hello René.

    Great basic DMVPN lab but i have a request:

    A DMVPN lab with 2 ISP’s (Multihoming) and load balancing using EIGRP Add-Path Support. I have had a hard time understanding the concept of that.

  2. Thanks Andrew I was able to get it to work with the 7200 image

    Rene- I could not located the 3725 image you are using, what is the filename of it? as I would like to have it as well for sake of consistency.

  3. Hi Stephen,

    The 3725 image I used for most GNS3Vault labs is c3725-adventerprisek9-mz.124-15.T7.bin. Any of the other T versions should be fine.

    Rene

  4. Hi Rene,

    I am a little bit confused here. When you advertise a default route with EIGRP, normally the spokes already have a default route (static maybe) because they are connected to the internet. in this case the EIGRP default route will not show in the routing table as it has a higher AD. and at the same time we cannot remove the default static route as we need it for the internet and also to reach the Hub router. To me, advertising a EIGRP default route here does not make sense because it will not be used. i was wondering if we can see a real summarization e

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  5. I configured ip nhrp redirect on the hub, and ip nhrp shortcut on the spokes, I am also using 15.2(4)M6 but ip nhrp redirect doesn’t work

    traceroute 3.3.3.3 source loopback 0 still hits the hub first
Tracing the route to 3.3.3.3
VRF info: (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)
  1 172.16.123.1 28 msec 16 msec 24 msec
  2 172.16.123.3 40 msec 16 msec *

    Please advise

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