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Summary:
Modify the hello / hold timers to Cereal so failover occurs in less than 5 seconds
Note: hold timer in eigrp is to tell your peer if they do not see you in 15 seconds, they will consider you are down as opposed to you consider your neighbor is down

Default hello message is 5 secs, and hold timer is 5x3 = 15 secs

Cereal:
int s1/1
ip hello-interval eigrp 90 1
ip hold-time eigrp 90 3
int s1/0
ip hello-interval eigrp 90 1
ip hold-time eigrp 90 3
Eggs:
int s1/3
ip hello-interval eigrp 90 1
ip hold-time eigrp 90 3
int s2/0
ip hello-interval eigrp 90 1
ip hold-time eigrp 90 3
To verify:

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