Re: Distance command

From: Bob Sinclair (bsinclair@netmasterclass.net)
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 17:22:05 GMT-3


Tim,

This may be a little OT of your question, but would not an exception to the
"local-only" significance of AD be the PIM assert mechanism? Doesn't PIM
compare AD of routers on the same segment when electing a DR?

Bob Sinclair
CCIE #10427, CCSI 30427, CISSP
www.netmasterclass.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
To: "Group Study" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: Distance command

> Hi guys,
>
> I just want to confirm my understanding of a detail with the use of the
> above
> command.
>
> Is it true that no matter which form of the command is used or which
> protocol
> is running, it affects the AD of received routes only on the router on
> which
> it's configured?
>
> I know, for example, with eigrp, if the distance command is used on RTR-1,
> to
> change the AD to 80, the eigrp routes learned from RTR-1 by RTR-2 will
> show up
> in RTR-2's route table with a AD of 90, not 80.
>
> Is that logic always true with all routing protocols? And, is it always
> true
> that if the AD is changed on one router, that doesn't mean that the AD
> needs
> to or should be changed on the other routers running that routing
> protocol?
>
> TIA, Tim
>
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