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Hi, I'm kind of new to all of this but I have been asked to create a failover environment for the connections between our two offices. &nbsp;I have attached a crude drawing to give a better idea of what I'm trying to do, but basically I'd like EIGRP to learn all of the routes and by its own power, choose the DS3 link as the primary path unless the DS3 goes down, then use the MPLS network. &nbsp;I have worked with the MPLS ISP to enable EIGRP on their CPE equipment.<br />
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My question is: &nbsp;Will this design work? &nbsp;Will EIGRP information be shared across the routers within the same office connected to a switch but not directly connected to each other?<br />
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Please let me know if I should provide more detail but EIGRP is in place and functional with other equipment.<br />
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Hi, I'm kind of new to all of this but I have been asked to create a failover environment for the connections between our two offices.  I have attached a crude drawing to give a better idea of what I'm trying to do, but basically I'd like EIGRP to learn all of the routes and by its own power, choose the DS3 link as the primary path unless the DS3 goes down, then use the MPLS network.  I have worked with the MPLS ISP to enable EIGRP on their CPE equipment.

My question is:  Will this design work?  Will EIGRP information be shared across the routers within the same office connected to a switch but not directly connected to each other?

Please let me know if I should provide more detail but EIGRP is in place and functional with other equipment.

EIGRP across non-directly connected routers

Networking software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented on the machine's operating system that implements the networking functionality of the operating system. The best known frameworks are the TCP/IP model and the OSI model. Systems typically do not use a single protocol to handle a transmission. Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.[9] Some of the best known protocol suites include: IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25, AppleTalk and TCP/IP. Other protocols indirectly related to networking include the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and its related technologies, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Server (DNS) and other Internet protocols.

Networking Protocols

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Network design and methodology, also known as network architecture, is the design of a communication network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its operation. In telecommunication, the specification of a network architecture may also include a detailed description of products and services delivered via a communications network, as well as detailed rate and billing structures under which services are compensated.