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EIGRP neighbor question

dladen
Level 1
Level 1

What is the net effect of having

no eigrp log-neighbor-changes

under the eigrp configuration?

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thisisshanky
Level 11
Level 11

When "eigrp log-neighbor-changes" is enabled, SYSLOG messages pop up indicating state change information of neighbors. When you use no form of the command, you just disable it.

Sankar Nair
UC Solutions Architect
Pacific Northwest | CDW
CCIE Collaboration #17135 Emeritus

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thisisshanky
Level 11
Level 11

When "eigrp log-neighbor-changes" is enabled, SYSLOG messages pop up indicating state change information of neighbors. When you use no form of the command, you just disable it.

Sankar Nair
UC Solutions Architect
Pacific Northwest | CDW
CCIE Collaboration #17135 Emeritus

Thats good to know. There is no operational impact just an informational impact.

No, there's no operational impact, but please leave it on. :-) As a former TAC and Escalation engineer, I can't tell you the number of times people have called in, and we had to "wait until the next failure" to collect information we could've gotten off of this type of generic logging. Unfortunately, this sort of logging isn't done in the EIGRP event log (something to file and bug the EIGRP guys about, I suppose), so....

Russ.W

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