From: Edison Ortiz (edisonmortiz@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 12:28:12 ART
The documentation is wrong. Both Static Routes have the same metric.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Mullen" <mullenm@gmail.com>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: AD of Static Route
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize if this is a topic that has been discussed before, I could
> not
> locate anything in the archives. I have always had the understanding that
> a
> static route which points to an outgoing interface has an Administrative
> Distance of 0 while a static route pointing to a next hop has an
> administrative distance of 1. Several web sites and books back that up
> including
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/admin_distance.html
> and perhaps the most convincing source:
>
> "For example, IPv4 static routes pointing to a next-hop address have an
> administrative distance of 1, and static routes referencing an exit
> interface have an administrative distance of 0"
>
> Routing TCP/IP Vol 1 Second Edition, Jeff Doyle, Pg. 99
>
> However, it seems that IOS doesn't agree...
>
> Rack1R1(config)#ip route 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 ethernet0/0
> Rack1R1(config)#do show ip route 10.10.10.0
> Routing entry for 10.10.10.0/24
> Known via "static", *distance 1*, metric 0 (connected)
> Routing Descriptor Blocks:
> * directly connected, via Ethernet0/0
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
>
> Did this change at some point? Does anyone know the history behind this?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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