From: Brian McGahan (brian@cyscoexpert.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 15:30:09 GMT-3
Shawn,
Administrative distance is always locally significant. Also,
you cannot change the distance of external EIGRP routes on a per prefix
basis. To change the distance of D EX, use the syntax:
Distance EIGRP [internal] [external]
HTH
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
Director of Design and Implementation
brian@cyscoexpert.com
CyscoExpert Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Landreth, Shawn
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:45 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Changing the EIGRP Administrative Distance on Incoming routes
>
> Does anyone know of a way to change the administrative distance of
routes
> that are redistribute into EIGRP? For example, routes are
redistributed
> from BGP into EIGRP, and will receive the AD of 170 when advertised to
> other
> routers. The routing table of the router running EIGRP/BGP has the
> distance
> of 20 - understandable. When redistributed into EIGRP and passed to
other
> routers - the idea is to change this distance from 170 to 90. The
goal:
> have EIGRP place the route (over 34mb pipe) in the table over the
> preexisting routes across a lower speed links with lower AD's.
>
> EIGRP has two main options for changing distances - using the
"distance"
> command - where you can specify a source interface, or the "distance
eigrp
> <int> <ext>" command - which will change the distance of internal and
> external routes.
>
> Since there is no EIGRP interface for the redistributed route - using
the
> first option means having to configure this on receiving routers,
which
> could mean quite a few routers to touch.
>
> Regarding the "distance eigrp <int> <ext>" command - is this a locally
> significant configuration command, or is the route propagated to the
next
> router with the value I specify?
>
> Thanks all.
> Shawn
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