Hello Sam,
2) there is no default seed metric in EIGRP you need to set one with
metric BW delay reliability load mtu
example
router eigrp 100
metric 10000 1000 255 1 1500
red bgp 200
!
otherwise no BGP routes are redistributed into EIGRP
1)
not clear I try to guess:
sh ip eigrp topology shows the states of routes
normal good state is passive.
a route goes active if current best route failed no feasible successor exists and the router sends Queries to all of its neighbors about the prefix.
there is also the EIGRP neighbor state machine to setup EIGRP adjacencies.
this can be seen with
sh ip eigrp neighbors
Hope to help
Giuseppe
