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EIGRP was the best choice for an interior gateway protocol in late 1990s – it was fast, efficient, and easy to deploy. OSPF and IS-IS implementations improved in the intervening 30 years, slowly turning EIGRP into a forgotten technology.

On a more serious note, I wouldn’t deploy EIGRP in new network designs for compatibility reasons (no major networking vendor apart from Cisco implemented it), and I’d use BGP in designs where a single router has to deal with hundreds of adjacent routers (the only scenario where EIGRP still outshines OSPF and IS-IS).

DMVPN is an old¹ Cisco-proprietary technology that combines NHRP, IPsec, IKEv2 and multipoint GRE tunnels to build dynamically-provisioned multi-access VPNs.

The easiest way to master DMVPN is to watch the ipSpace.net DMVPN webinars, and every now and then someone still finds them somewhat useful:

• Feedback: DMVPN Webinars
• DMVPN Deployment Success Story
• DMVPN: How to Get from Zero to Hero?
• Advanced DMVPN Webinar: Router Configurations

I also wrote dozens of DMVPN-related blog posts. Hope you’ll enjoy them!