Re: Distance command clarification

From: Dale Shaw (dale.shaw@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 01:55:33 ARST


That's the trick -- you can't use the 'distance' command to change the
AD of specific external (D EX) EIGRP routes.

You can use the "distance eigrp" command to change all externals, but
not specific ones.

This has been covered recently on the list -- hit the archives for more info.

cheers,
Dale

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Peter Chuba <ptchuba@live.com> wrote:
> It's EIGRP. I'll try to summarize. It's like this:
>
> SW1--(.7)---147.1.37.0/24----(.3)---R3
> |
> |
> L0 150.1.7.7/24
>
> SW1 and R3 are running EIGRP over their directly connected link. SW1 is
> redistributing connected interface L0 into EIGRP.
>
> R3's EIGRP config
>
> router eigrp 100
> network 145.1.37.3 0.0.0.0
> distance 119 145.1.37.7 0.0.0.0 SW1_LOOPBACK
> no auto-summary
> !
> ip access-list standard SW1_LOOPBACK
> permit 150.1.7.0 0.0.0.255
>
>
>
> Yet I don't see this in the routing table of R3. Still shows 170.
>
> 150.1.0.0/24 is subnetted, 5 subnets
> D EX 150.1.7.0 [170/409600] via 145.1.37.7, 00:00:03, Ethernet0/0
> R 150.1.6.0 [120/1] via 145.1.136.6, 00:00:06, Ethernet0/1
> D EX 150.1.5.0 [170/2560028416] via 145.1.37.7, 00:00:03, Ethernet0/0
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Shaw [mailto:dale.shaw@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:35 AM
> To: Peter Chuba
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Distance command clarification
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Which routing protocol are you talking about? There are some subtle
> differences, but as far as I've experienced, the DocCD covers the
> usage adequately.
>
> Also, it might help if you posted some real examples of what has/has
> not worked for you.
>
> cheers,
> Dale
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Peter Chuba <ptchuba@live.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't quite understand this command and Cisco's documentation is not
> very
>> clear to me.
>>
>> distance distance ip-address wildcard-mask [ip-standard-acl |
>> ip-extended-acl | access-list-name]
>>
>> What do the IP address and access-list represent. I was thinking the IP is
>> that of the advertising router and the access-list specifies a route
> prefix.
>> Yet I have tried this in a lab and can't set the distance for a specific
>> route from a specified neighbor.
>> Can someone please clarify me?
>>
>> Thanks

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