distance

Description

Defines an administrative distance for OSPF. Administrative distance is used as a criteria to select the best route when multiple routes are present from different routing protocols.

The no form of this command sets the OSPF administrative distance to the default of 110.

Command context

config-ospf

Parameters

<DISTANCE>

Specifies OSPF administrative distance. Default: 110. Range: 1-255.

Authority

Administrators

Examples

Setting OSPF administrative distance:

switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# router ospf 1
switch(config-ospf-1)# distance 100

Setting OSPF administrative distance to the default:

switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# router ospf 1
switch(config-ospf-1)# no distance