# EIGRP Hold Time and Hello Packets

**URL:** https://forum.networklessons.com/t/eigrp-hold-time-and-hello-packets/1060
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**Created:** [December 26, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/eigrp-hold-time-and-hello-packets/1060 "2016-12-26T19:06:20Z")
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### Author: ![system](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/uploads/default/original/1X/1d2ef66728c7fbac8377748594345a3f474fce5f.png) [@system](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/eigrp-hold-time-and-hello-packets/1060/2 "2013-09-12T10:06:51Z")

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Yesterday I did the same lab, hehe, same results.

```
R2#show ip eigrp neighbors
EIGRP-IPv4 Neighbors for AS(1)
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
                                            (sec) (ms) Cnt Num
0 192.168.1.1 Fa1/0 167 00:17:51 81 486 0 17

R2#
*Sep 11 19:02:43.279: EIGRP: Received QUERY on FastEthernet1/0 nbr 192.168.1.1
*Sep 11 19:02:43.279: AS 1, Flags 0x0:(NULL), Seq 18/0 interfaceQ 0/0 iidbQ un/rely 0/0 peerQ un/rely 0/0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.283: EIGRP: Enqueueing ACK on FastEthernet1/0 nbr 192.168.1.1 tid 0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.283: Ack seq 18 iidbQ un/rely 0/0 peerQ un/rely 1/0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.287: Handling TLV: 242 43 for 0 route: 1.1.1.1/32
*Sep 11 19:02:43.295: EIGRP: Sending ACK on FastEthernet1/0 nbr 192.168.1.1 tid 0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.295: AS 1, Flags 0x0:(NULL), Seq 0/18 interfaceQ 0/0 iidbQ un/rely 0/0 peerQ un/rely 1/0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.299: EIGRP: Enqueueing REPLY on FastEthernet1/0
R2# nbr 192.168.1.1 tid 0 iidbQ un/rely 0/1 peerQ un/rely 0/0 serno 13-13
*Sep 11 19:02:43.303: EIGRP: Requeued unicast on FastEthernet1/0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.315: EIGRP: Sending REPLY on FastEthernet1/0 nbr 192.168.1.1 tid 0
*Sep 11 19:02:43.319: AS 1, Flags 0x0:(NULL), Seq 18/18 interfaceQ 0/0 iidbQ un/rely 0/0 peerQ un/rely 0/1 serno 13-13
*Sep 11 19:02:43.387: EIGRP: Received ACK on FastEthernet1/0 nbr 192.168.1.1
*Sep 11 19:02:43.387: AS 1, Flags 0x0:(NULL), Seq 0/18 interfaceQ 0/0 iidbQ un/rely 0/0 peerQ un/rely 0/1

R2#show ip eigrp neighbors
EIGRP-IPv4 Neighbors for AS(1)
H Address Interface Hold Uptime SRTT RTO Q Seq
                                            (sec) (ms) Cnt Num
0 192.168.1.1 Fa1/0 171 00:18:03 78 468 0 18

```

Very good observation of you.  
Thanks again. 🙂

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