Setting a Preferred Route by Influencing EIGRP Metrics (Cisco Systems)

Setting a Preferred Route by Influencing EIGRP Metrics (Cisco Systems)
This document describes how to create a preferred route by influencing Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) metrics. Given the topology shown in the network diagram, this document describes several ways to influence IP traffic from the clients to the servers so that the path R1>R2>R3 is preferred. The goal is to make the path R1>R2>R4 into a backup that is only used in the event of a failure at R3.