EIGRP routing protocol

[student1363]

hi,

seems a silly question, but why can't I see EIGRP in "Network" menu of FG200E? The only options are "RIP", "OSPF" and "BGP".

Thanks

[aagrafi · Accepted solution]

EIGRP is a proprietary protocol. You can find it in Cisco routers only. Fortinet, as all other vendors, only support standard protocols.

[aagrafi · Accepted solution]

EIGRP is a proprietary protocol. You can find it in Cisco routers only. Fortinet, as all other vendors, only support standard protocols.

[student1363]

thanks. So, when I connect my FG to Cisco router I should use for example RIP between them?

[aagrafi]

RIP should work, but I would recommend RIPv2 or OSPF.

[Oliver_Jones]

EIGRP was published as an open standard (see RFC 7868) since May 2016. It is not proprietary. So please stop making excuses, and implement this excellent protocol on FortiGate firewalls. :) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7868

Edit: See page 78 of the RFC - open source implementations already exist for Linux and OpenBSD.

[aagrafi · Accepted solution]

I copy from RFC-7868:

"Request for Comments: 7868

Category: Informational

...

This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard;"

So, please stop making noise about EIGRP in that forum. If someone wants to deploy a good interior routing protocol, there is an excellent choice: It's called OSPF, it's open, it's great.