Monday 15 October 2012

Init bit in EIGRP Update Packet

Suppose you have Routers A and B, running along fine, for many hours. Router A reloads, but comes back up before Router B's hold timer has expired. When Router B sees A's hellos, it will assume that A just missed a couple, and everything is fine. But everything isn't fine--A just lost all of its routing information! How can A signal this state, and as B to re-synchronize?

A can send an empty update, with the init bit set. This causes Router B to place A in the "pending" state, and wipe out all the information it's learned from A (unless, of course, graceful restart is configured/etc).

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/50827

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