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Describe, in Your Own Words, The Different EIGRP Packet Types and What Each Does

EIGRP uses five packet types: Hello packets are multicast to discover neighbors and form adjacencies; Update packets propagate routing information and are sent reliably as multicast or unicast; Acknowledgement packets acknowledge reliably sent messages; Query packets query routes from neighbors reliably; and Reply packets respond to queries indicating a route is available, sent reliably as unicast.

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Describe, in Your Own Words, The Different EIGRP Packet Types and What Each Does

EIGRP uses five packet types: Hello packets are multicast to discover neighbors and form adjacencies; Update packets propagate routing information and are sent reliably as multicast or unicast; Acknowledgement packets acknowledge reliably sent messages; Query packets query routes from neighbors reliably; and Reply packets respond to queries indicating a route is available, sent reliably as unicast.

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Describe, in your own words, the different EIGRP packet types and what each does.

Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP) uses five packet types described as follows:
1. Hello: Hello packets are multicast and are used to discover other EIGRP-enabled routers on
directly connected links. EIGRP routers will try to form neighbor adjacency as soon as it they
receive hello packets. Empty Hello packets are also used as acknowledgement (acks) and contain
a non-zero acknowledgement number. EIGRP Hello packets are usually multicast to 224.0.0.10.
Hello packets are sent with RTP unreliable delivery.
2. Updates: These packets propagate routing information and are sent to only the routers which
require it. They can be sent as unicast to a single neighbor or by multicast to a group of
neighbors. Update packets are sent to any newly discovered neighbors so they can quickly build
an accurate routing and topology table. Updates are always transmitted reliably. Update packets
are usually multicast, but can be unicast.
3. Acknowledgement: Used to acknowledge the receipt of an EIGRP message that was sent
using reliable delivery. Acknowledgement packets are sent unicast with unreliable delivery.
4. Query: These can be unicast or multicast and are used to query routes from neighbors. Query
packets are sent using reliable delivery.
5. Repy: Reply packets are sent in response to query packets to indicate that a new route to the
destination is available. Reply packets are sent with reliable delivery as unicast.

Sources:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/enhanced-interior-gateway-routing-protocoleigrp/13669-1.html
http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CCNPExamBSCITutorialsEIGRPPart1.htm

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