Re: EIGRP distance command...

From: Rsharma (cciers09@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2009 - 00:05:01 ARST


Yes its true that EIGRP allows distance command to change specific internal
routes AD.

You can change AD of external routes but here CISCO comes up with Condition
applied ...

You can change AD of external routes but you cant change AD for specific
external route .

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Modular <modulartx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed that in EIGRP, when you use the form of the
> distance
> > command
> > that allows you to modify the distance of specific routes, from specific
> > neighbors, it only
> > affects internal EIGRP routes... it has no affect on external EIGRP
> routes?
> > Is there any way to change this behavior?
>
> This came up on the list a few weeks ago. To quote Ronnie:
>
> "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.
>
> 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."
>
> If you come to a different conclusion, please let us all know.
>
> cheers,
> Dale
>
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