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Notes on Administrative Distance and Metric

by Shabeer ibm

Routing protocols uses metrics for calculating best path for a remote network.
Distance vector routing protocols use distance (usually hop-count) as their metric.
Link state protocols utilize some sort of cost as their metric. Only routes with the
best metric are added to the routing table.
If multiple equal-metric routes exist to a particular network, most routing protocols
will load-balance. If your router is running multiple routing protocols,
Administrative Distance is used to determine which routing protocol to trust the
most. Routing protocol with Lowest administrative distance wins.

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A route with an unknown Administrative Distance will never be inserted into

the routing table.
For example consider a router is configured with two routing
protocolsOSPFandEIGRP. Since EIGRP has lower AD value of 90 when compared to
that of OSPF which is 110, the router chooses the path derived byEIGRP. If we
configure a static route with EIGRP, router chooses static route because its AD value
is 1.
The Administrative distance can be configured manually and it can override default
administrative distance values.
Changing default administrative distance values
RIP
Router(config)#router rip
Router(config-route)#distance < 220>
EIGRP
Router(config)#router eigrp 111
Router(config-route)#distance eigrp <55 > <200> [internal Ad value and external
Ad value]

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OSPF
Router(config)#router OSPF 100
Router(config-route)#distance < 90>
NOTE : To go back to default administrative distance in above protocols use no
distance command

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