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AlexFeren
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EIGRP through the fortigate in transparent mode - corrected

Since original "Eigrp throug the fortigate in transparent mode" thread is locked, I wanted to correct it for posterity.

 

In it, the statement "EIGRP is multicast protocol IP 88" is partially incorrect - indeed EIGRP is BOTH Multicast and Unicast. (For explanation, see "EIGRP startup process - Unicast and multicast Updates containing topology information".)

 

So, enabling multicast-skip-policy is insufficient - a (Unicast) firewall policy to cover protocol 88 is needed.

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emnoc
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Your 100% correct that it's not  100% mcast. In fact, OSPF is ALSO  the same and many mistakes that it uses mcast only. Typically neighbor discovery is mcast and updates are unicast for both protocols.

 

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