Re: distance command under ospf

Guess I just had other issues going on then... It was
OSPF/EIGRP/RIP/'Redistribute connected' with 4 mutual redistribution
points.... so I probably had something else going on that screwed something
up. I just wanted to sanity check with the experts :)

Thanks Ryan.

Chris

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:

> Distance should work with any routes in ospf.
>
> Sent from handheld.
>
> On May 17, 2009, at 6:59 PM, "Chris Breece" <cbreece1_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > I was working on a scenario today and got some results I wasn't
> > expecting. I
> > didn't save my exact configs, but I put together the basics of how
> > it was
> > setup below. If there are any typos, sorry, I did it in notepad.
> >
> >
> > R1
> > router ospf 1
> > network 10.10.10.1 0.0.0.0 area 0
> > redis connected route-map redis-connected metric 10 metric-type 1
> > subnets
> > !
> > interface fa0/0
> > ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0
> > !
> > interface fa0/1
> > ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
> > !
> > route-map redis-connected permit 10
> > match interface fa0/1
> >
> >
> > R2
> > router ospf 1
> > network 10.10.10.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
> > distance 180 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.255 external-routes
> > !
> > int fa0/0
> > ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
> > !
> > ip access-list standard external-routes
> > permit 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
> >
> >
> > The scenario was that I wanted any routes learned by R2 from R1 that
> > were
> > "external" to have an AD of 180. The two routers are connected via
> > their
> > Fa0/0 interfaces. R1's Fa0/1 has the subnet that will be brought
> > into OSPF
> > as an external... and I was attempting to match this route via the
> > access-list attached to the distance command under the OSPF process
> > on R2.
> >
> > After I set this up, I looked at R2's routing table and R2 had
> > learned it
> > via OSPF with an AD of 110. If I changed the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet
> > to be
> > apart of Area 0, rather than an external it changed the AD to 180.
> >
> > Also, when I used "distance ospf external 180" this worked fine.
> > However, it
> > messed up some other requirements in the scenario, so I couldn't use
> > it.
> >
> >
> > Is this behavior normal? Does the "distance" command not work with
> > externals? Or is it that I was probably just doing something wrong
> > elsewhere?
> >
> > Chris
> >
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