Re: Distance command in EIGRP

From: YJC (stiff.yu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 00:56:11 GMT-3


   
hi,
pls try below,
router eigrp 1
distance 90 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 2
access-list 2 permit 172.50.50.0 0.0.0.255
pls tell me result.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ravi <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Distance command in EIGRP

> Jay,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ethernet0 172.50.50.2/24
> Serial0 172.60.60.2/24
>
> Serial interface participate in EIGRP routing process thru network
command,
> Ethernet is not. sh ip eigrp int shows only the serial interface. I did
not
> put network statement for 172,50.50 network, but is redistributed to EIGRP
> using redistribute connected command. So its distance is 170, thus other
> routers choose ospf route to the 172.50.50.0 network. As you correctly
said
> if I use distance 90 90 OR distance 90 100, It solves the problem but it
> changes the distance for all the external routes.
>
> Regards,
> Ravi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
> To: Ravi <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Distance command in EIGRP
>
>
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ravi wrote:
> >
> > > You are very close to my problem.
> > >
> > > I wand to reduce the distance of a network 172.50.50.0 /24 . This
> network is
> > > directly connected to a EIGRP router. As there is no routing protocol
to
> be
> > > enabled for this network (limitation in a practice lab), I did
> redistribute
> > > connected. When it is redistributed to EIGRP, the distance is 170 for
> this
> > > network. The problem here is, all other network has the distance of 90
> > > (EIGRP internal routes) but this network is with 170.
> >
> > It sounds like the 172.50.50.0/24, although connected to an EIGRP
router,
> > is not participating in EIGRP and thus being redistributed as an
external
> > connected network. Is 172.50.0.0 in your EIGRP network statement and
does
> > it show in "show ip eigrp interfaces"? If you don't want EIGRP running
on
> > that interface you can always make it passive. Does including it in the
> > EIGRP process but making it passive violate your practice lab
requirement?
> >
> > Another possibility is to change the administrative distance of all
> > external routes along the lines of "(config-router)#distance eigrp 90
90",
> > but this isn't recommended as it could break other things if there are
> > other external networks you want to have at a larger distance. If this
> > is the only external network you're redistributing there, it makes no
> > difference.
> >
> > Or, under the EIGRP routing process you could put
> > "distance 90 172.50.50.0 0.0.0.255".
> >
> > > Another router learns this network from a OSPF router as its distance
is
> > > only 110. So now this router chooses the ospf route as best route. To
> > > overcome this problem, I want to reduce the distance of this network,
in
> > > otherwords, all the routers should learn this network thru EIGRP. OSPF
> > > should be second option. There are few work around to solve this
> problem,
> > > however, I was trying this method to fix.
> >
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