
Big routing tables are slow to converge and easy to break. In this Cisco IOS lab I use EIGRP manual summarization to collapse a sprawl of subnets into a single advertised route — shrinking the table, speeding convergence, and containing query scope, with the exact config and the show output that proves it.

Both OSPF and EIGRP can route your internal network well — but they get there very differently. Here is a practical guide to picking the right one for your topology.