Propagating Default Routes - EIGRP

There are 4 ways to get default routes into EIGRP topology. We will take a look at all of them. Consider a simple 2 router topology and let's begin.

1) Redistributing static into EIGRP.

• Get interfaces configured 
• Add a default static route pointing to null0 on R2
• Redistribute static into EIGRP and notice that R3 now uses R2 as default gateway. 

2) ip default-network

• R2 loopback 1 with the default gateway 
• R2 loopback 2 with an extra network just to test
• R2 ip default-network 2.0.0.0 command
• R2 eigrp 100 to send 2.2.2.1 advertisement. 
• Notice that in R3 2.0.0.0/8 appears with a *
• Notice that R3 can ping 3.3.3.1 (lo on R2) by using a default route. 

3) Summary address 

• ip summary-address eigrp <ASN> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <ad|leak-map>
• Notice that in R3 there is just a default and no other specific routes. 
• Notice that in R2 a summary route was created pointing to null0

• Context help and notice leak-map. 
• Leak-map are similar to route-maps and you can configure a subset of routes that are leaked via summary-addresses. 

4) network everything by typing network 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 under the eigrp process. Thanks to Anonymous for the comment.

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