Re: Distance command in EIGRP

From: Nigel Taylor (nigel_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 00:53:28 GMT-3


   
Ravi,
            Why not simply add this network under the EIGRP process and
apply the passive-interface command so you're not sending out hellos on the
non-eigrp connected segments. This way you don't have to adjust the ext
AD.

Thoughts.

Nigel..

----- Original Message -----
From: Ravi <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com>
To: YJC <stiff.yu@datacraft-asia.com>; Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Distance command in EIGRP

> Tried already, it is not working.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: YJC <stiff.yu@datacraft-asia.com>
> To: Ravi <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com>; Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
> Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Distance command in EIGRP
>
>
> > 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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