Name
distance — router
Synopsis
distancedistance
[address mask
] [access-list
] no distancedistance
[address mask
] [access-list
]
Configures
Administrative distance
Default
Depends on the protocol
Description
The distance
command allows you to change the trustworthiness of a route’s source relative to other routing protocols. The lower the distance, the more the route’s source is trusted. Routes with a distance of 255 are not added to the route table. Chapter 8 discusses how routing protocols use administrative distances and lists the default value for each protocol.
-
distance
The administrative distance to be assigned to this protocol (or to routes selected by the other arguments to this command). Administrative distance must be a value from 1 to 255.
-
address mask
Optional. If these arguments are present, the administrative distance applies only to routes whose destinations match this address/mask pair.
-
access-list
Optional. If this argument is present, the administrative distance applies only to routes that match the given access list.
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