Re: OSPF Distance Command .!

@Sadiq .

i like the way you put it ..! "Otherwise, you are in for a long, unreliable
and incoherent exercise."
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Gents, a little search over GS archives would second Bryan's point! This
> issue hunted me down in my first attempt!
>
> While some have even gone to TAC, others have tried bugging it! But from
> the research I carried out a while ago, my conclusion is you are not to use
> AD to influence prefix selection WITHIN the same routing protocol - use
> metric instead! BETWEEN 2 or more routing protocols, use AD.
>
> Otherwise, you are in for a long, unreliable and incoherent exercise.
>
> Sadiq
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bryan Bartik <bbartik_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Divin, I think you hit it right on :) I have labbed this several times
>> before and what I found was that you cannot use AD to prefer one ospf
>> route
>> over another in the same ospf process (There may be crazy scenarios where
>> you can, but I don't recall finding any). Makes sense, since like you said
>> AD is to prefer one protocol over another. You could place the link to R1
>> in
>> another process on R0 and then change the distance in that process.
>>
>> Bryan Bartik
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