STUDY THE IMPACTS OF BANDWIDTH AND DELAY TO PERFORMANCE OF EIGRP IN IPV4 AND IPV6 NETWORK

Abstract

Calculating the routing parameters of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is much more complicated than that of other protocols, which use parameters such as bandwidth, latency, reliability, load and Maximum size of packets to find the best route among the routes to the destination. Changing one or more of these parameters may change of the routing parameter value of the EIGRP protocol leading to EIGRP performance being affected. However, most previous published studies have focused on evaluation EIGRP performance based on all five parameters and using evaluation techniques based on the complexity of the DUAL algorithm in the EIGRP protocol. In this study, the authors attended to clarify the effect of two bandwidth parameters and latency on the performance of EIGRP protocol on IPv4 and IPv6. The results showed that bandwidth and latency can greatly affect the selection of paths in the EIGRP algorithm on IPv4, but almost no impact on IPv6.