Re: EIGRP distance.

From: Ronnie Angello (ronnie.angello@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 31 2009 - 23:19:36 ARST

Good question... As far as I know it's just one of those things that
we accept as "that's the way that it's coded." They want you to use
distance eigrp for changing the distance of EIGRP routes, but I guess
it never crossed their minds that we'd like to change it for specific
external EIGRP routes.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mahesh Shivaswamy
<maheshs.cisco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ronnie, it worked when I change the dist in OSPF & able to avoid the
> loop.
>
> Why can't the external EIGRP routes distance be changed ???
>
> -Mahesh
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ronnie Angello <ronnie.angello@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You can't use the distance command to change the admin distance of
>> external EIGRP routes. Use the distance eigrp command to change the
>> distance for external routes or change the admin distance of your OSPF
>> routes to 171.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Mahesh Shivaswamy
>> <maheshs.cisco@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have R2 & R3 runing EIGRP & OSPF and are mutually redistributing.
>> >
>> > The networks 132.1.6.0, 132.1.5.0 & 192.10.1.0 are in EIGRP as external
>> > routes with AD 170, I am trying to set the AD to 109 with the following
>> > configs
>> >
>> > access-list 5 permit 132.1.6.0 0.0.0.255
>> > access-list 5 permit 132.1.5.0 0.0.0.255
>> > access-list 5 permit 192.10.1.0 0.0.0.255
>> >
>> > router eigrp 10
>> > distance 109 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 5
>> >
>> > I do not see the distance being set to 109
>> >
>> > R2#sh ip route 132.1.6.0
>> > Routing entry for 132.1.6.0/24
>> > Known via "eigrp 10", distance 170, metric 2560002816, type external
>> > Redistributing via ospf 1, eigrp 10
>> > Advertised by ospf 1 subnets
>> > Last update from 132.1.26.6 on FastEthernet0/0, 00:18:00 ago
>> > Routing Descriptor Blocks:
>> > * 132.1.26.6, from 132.1.26.6, 00:18:00 ago, via FastEthernet0/0
>> > Route metric is 2560002816, traffic share count is 1
>> > Total delay is 110 microseconds, minimum bandwidth is 1 Kbit
>> > Reliability 1/255, minimum MTU 1 bytes
>> > Loading 1/255, Hops 1
>> >
>> > R2#
>> > R2#sh ip route 132.1.5.0
>> > Routing entry for 132.1.5.0/24
>> > Known via "ospf 1", distance 110, metric 20, type extern 2, forward
>> > metric
>> > 64
>> > Redistributing via eigrp 10
>> > Advertised by eigrp 10 metric 1 1 1 1 1
>> > Last update from 132.1.0.3 on Serial0/0, 00:17:22 ago
>> > Routing Descriptor Blocks:
>> > * 132.1.0.3, from 150.1.3.3, 00:17:22 ago, via Serial0/0
>> > Route metric is 20, traffic share count is 1
>> >
>> > R2#
>> > R2#sh ip route 192.10.1.0
>> > Routing entry for 192.10.1.0/24
>> > Known via "ospf 1", distance 110, metric 20, type extern 2, forward
>> > metric
>> > 64
>> > Redistributing via eigrp 10
>> > Advertised by eigrp 10 metric 1 1 1 1 1
>> > Last update from 132.1.0.3 on Serial0/0, 00:17:32 ago
>> > Routing Descriptor Blocks:
>> > * 132.1.0.3, from 150.1.3.3, 00:17:32 ago, via Serial0/0
>> > Route metric is 20, traffic share count is 1
>> >
>> > What am I missing here ??
>> >
>> > rgds
>> > Mahesh
>> >
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