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To set the interval during which at least one hello packet must be received from a neighbor on an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) virtual link before the router declares that neighbor as down, use the dead interval command. To restore the default, use the no form of this command.
dead-interval seconds
no dead-interval
seconds |
Interval (in seconds) during which the router must receive at least one hello packet from a neighbor or that neighbor is removed from the peer list and does not participate in routing. The range is from 1 to 65535. The value must be the same for all nodes on the virtual link. |
The default value for seconds is our times the interval set by the hello-interval command.
Virtual link configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the dead interval command in virtual link configuration mode to configure the dead interval advertised in OSPF hello packets. This value must be the same for all networking devices on the virtual link.
You can configure a shorter dead interval (seconds) to detect a down neighbor faster and improve convergence. A shorter dead interval may lead to virtual link instability by incorrectly declaring a slow neighbor as down.
Use the show ip ospf virtual-links command to verify the dead interval.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure the OSPF dead interval to 20 seconds:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# ospf 201 switch(config-router)# area 99 virtual-link 192.0.2.4 switch(config-router-vlink)# dead-interval 20
Command |
Description |
---|---|
hello-interval (OSPF virtual link) |
Configures the Interval between hello packets that Cisco NX-OS sends on the virtual link. |
show ip ospf virtual-link |
Displays OSPF-related information for a virtual link. |
To set the interval during which at least one hello packet must be received from a neighbor on an Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) virtual link before the router declares that neighbor as down, use the dead interval command. To restore the default, use the no form of this command.
dead-interval seconds
no dead-interval
seconds |
Interval (in seconds) during which the router must receive at least one hello packet from a neighbor or that neighbor is removed from the peer list and does not participate in routing. The range is from 1 to 65535. The value must be the same for all nodes on the virtual link. |
The default value for seconds is our times the interval set by the hello-interval command.
Virtual link configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the dead interval command in virtual link configuration mode to configure the dead interval advertised in OSPFv3 hello packets. This value must be the same for all networking devices on the virtual link.
You can configure a shorter dead interval (seconds) to detect a down neighbor faster and improve convergence. A shorter dead interval may lead to virtual link instability by incorrectly declaring a slow neighbor as down.
Use the show ospfv3 virtual-links command to verify the dead interval.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure the OSPFv3 dead interval to 20 seconds:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# ospfv3 201 switch(config-router)# area 99 virtual-link 192.0.2.4 switch(config-router-vlink)# dead-interval 20
Command |
Description |
---|---|
hello-interval (OSPFv3 virtual link) |
Configures the interval between hello packets that Cisco NX-OS sends on the virtual link. |
show ospfv3 virtual-link |
Displays OSPFv3-related information for a virtual link. |
To generate a default route into the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), use the default-information originate command in the appropriate configuration mode. To disable this feature, use the no form of this command.
default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
no default-information originate
always |
(Optional) Generates the default route if the route is not in the EIGRP routing information base. |
route-map map-name |
(Optional) Generates the default route only if the route is permitted by the route map. The map name is an alphanumeric string of up to 63 characters. |
Disabled
Address-family configuration
Router configuration
Router VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to originate a default route (0.0.0.0/0) to all routes that pass the Condition route map.
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router eigrp 201 switch(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-af)# default-information originate route-map Condition
Command |
Description |
---|---|
address-family |
Enters address-family configuration mode. |
default-metric |
Sets the metric for routes redistributed into EIGRP. |
redistribute |
Redistributes routes from other routing protocols into EIGRP. |
To control the origination of a default route, use the default-information originate command.
default-information originate [always] [ route-map name ]
always |
(Optional) Specifies always to advertise the default route. |
route-map name |
(Optional) Specifies the name of the routing rules route map to announce default routes. The name can be up to 63 characters. |
The default route is not redistributed into the IS-IS routing domain.
Router configuration
VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
You can force a default route into an IS-IS routing domain. Whenever you specifically configure redistribution of routes into an IS-IS routing domain, by default, the default route is not redistributed into the IS-I S routing domain. The default-information originate route-map command generates a default route into IS-IS, which can be controlled by a route map. You can use the route map to identify the level into which the default route is to be announced, and you can specify other filtering options configurable under a route map. You can use a route map to conditionally advertise the default route, depending on the existence of another route in the routing table of the router.
This example shows how to always advertise the default route:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router isis TEST1 switch(config-router)# default-information originate always switch(config-router)#
This example shows how to specify a route map to conditionally advertise the default route:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router isis TEST1 switch(config-router)# default-information originate route-map CORE1 switch(config-router)#
Command |
Description |
---|---|
feature isis |
Enables IS-IS on the router. |
router isis |
Enables IS-IS. |
To generate a default external route into an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing domain, use the default-information originate command. To disable this feature, use the no form of this command.
default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
no default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
always |
(Optional) Specifies to always advertise the default route regardless of whether the route table has a default route. |
route-map map-name |
(Optional) Specifies to advertise the default route if the route map is satisfied. The map-name argument can be any alphanumeric string up to 63 characters. |
Advertises the default route if the route is in the route table.
Router configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the default-information originate command to assign a default route for redistributed routes. Whenever you use the redistribute command to redistribute routes into an OSPF routing domain, Cisco NX-OS automatically becomes an Autonomous System Boundary Router (ASBR). However, an ASBR does not, by default, generate a default route into the OSPF routing domain.
Use the route-map keyword to filter redistributed routes so that Cisco NX-OS generates a default route only for routes that pass the route map. Use the always keyword to generate the default route regardless of whether the default route is in the route table.
Note | The default-information originate command ignores match statements in the optional route map. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure the default route redistributed into the OSPF routing domain for the Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP):
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospf 109 switch(config-router)# redistribute eigrp 108 route-map EigrpPolicy switch(config-router)# default-information originate always
Command |
Description |
---|---|
redistribute (OSPF) |
Redistributes routes from one routing domain into OSPF. |
route-map |
Defines a filter policy for routes. |
To generate a default external route into an Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) routing domain, use the default-information originate command. To disable this feature, use the no form of this command.
default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
no default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
always |
(Optional) Specifies to always advertise the default route regardless of whether the route table has a default route. |
route-map map-name |
(Optional) Specifies to advertise the default route if the route map is satisfied. The map-name argument can be any alphanumeric string up to 63 characters. |
Advertises the default route if the route is in the route table.
Address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the default-information originate command to assign a default route for redistributed routes. Whenever you use the redistribute command to redistribute routes into an OSPFv3 routing domain, Cisco NX-OS automatically becomes an Autonomous System Boundary Router (ASBR). However, an ASBR does not, by default, generate a default route into the OSPFv3 routing domain.
Use the route-map keyword to filter redistributed routes so that Cisco NX-OS generates a default route only for routes that pass the route map. Use the always keyword to generate the default route regardless of whether the default route is in the route table.
Note | The default-information originate command ignores match statements in the optional route map. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure the default route redistributed into the OSPFv3 routing domain for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP):
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospfv3 109 switch(config-router)# redistribute bgp 108 route-map bgpPolicy switch(config-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast switch(config-router-af)# default-information originate always
Command |
Description |
---|---|
redistribute (OSPFv3) |
Redistributes routes from one routing domain into OSPFv3. |
route-map |
Defines a filter policy for routes. |
To generate a default route into the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), use the default-information originate command in router address-family configuration mode. To disable this feature, use the no form of this command.
default-information originate [always] [ route-map map-name ]
no default-information originate
always |
(Optional) Generates the default route if the route is not in the RIP routing information base. |
route-map map-name |
(Optional) Generates the default route only if the route is permitted by the route map. The map name is any alphanumerical string up to 63 characters. |
This command is disabled by default.
Router address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
This command does not require a license.
This example shows how to originate a default route (0.0.0.0/0) to all routes that pass the Condition route map:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router rip Enterprise switch(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-af)# default-information originate route-map Condition
Command |
Description |
---|---|
address-family |
Enters address-family configuration mode. |
default-metric |
Sets the metric for routes redistributed into RIP. |
redistribute |
Redistributes routes from other routing protocols into RIP. |
To allow all Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) interfaces to be set as passive by default, use the default isis passive-interface command.
default isis passive-interface { level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2 }
level-1 |
(Optional) Suppresses level-1 PDU. |
level-1-2 |
(Optional) Suppresses level-1 and level-2 PDU. |
level-2 |
(Optional) Suppresses level-2 PDU. |
None
Interface configuration mode
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
6.2(2) |
This command was introduced. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to allow all IS-IS interfaces to be set as passive by default:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router isis 1 switch(config-router)# passive-interface default level-1 switch(config-router)# exit switch# configure terminal switch(config)# interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0 switch(config-if# isis passive-interface level-1 switch(config-if)# no isis passive-interface level-1 switch(config-if)# default isis passive-interface level-1 switch(config-if#
Command |
Description |
---|---|
isis passive-interface |
Blocks sending of routing updates on an IS-IS interface. |
no isis passive-interface |
Re-enables sending of routing updates on an IS-IS interface and activates only those interfaces that need adjacencies. |
To set metrics for an Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), use the default-metric command. To remove the metric value and restore the default state, use the no form of this command.
default-metric bandwidth delay reliability loading mtu
no default-metric
bandwidth |
Minimum bandwidth of the route in kilobits per second. The range is from 1 to 16777215. The default value is 100000. |
delay |
Route delay in tens of microseconds. The range is from 1 to 16777215. The default value is 100 (tens of microseconds). |
reliability |
Likelihood of successful packet transmission expressed as a number between 0 and 255. The value 255 means 100-percent reliability; 0 means no reliability. The default value is 255. |
loading |
Effective bandwidth of the route expressed as a number from 1 to 255 (255 is 100-percent loading). The default value is 1. |
mtu |
Minimum maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of the route in bytes. The range is from 1 to 4294967295. The default value is 1492. |
bandwidth: 100000
delay: 100 (tens of microseconds)
reliability: 255
loading: 1
MTU: 1500
Address-family configuration
Router configuration
Router VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
4.0(3) |
Changed the default value for MTU to 1492. |
Use the default-metric command with the redistribute command to use the same metric value for all redistributed routes. A default metric helps solve the problem of redistributing routes with incompatible metrics. Whenever external metrics do not convert to EIGRP metrics, you can use a default metric to provide a reasonable substitute to the external metric and enable the redistribution to proceed.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to take redistributed Routing Information Protocol (RIP) metrics and translate them into EIGRP metrics with the following values: bandwidth = 1000, delay = 100, reliability = 250, loading = 100, and MTU = 1500.
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router eigrp 1 switch(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-af)# redistribute rip 100 route-map FilterRIP switch(config-router-af)# default-metric 1000 100 250 100 1500
Command |
Description |
---|---|
redistribute |
Redistributes routes from one routing domain into another routing domain. |
To set default metric values for the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol, use the default-metric command. To return to the default state, use the no form of this command.
default-metric metric-value
no default-metric metric-value
metric-value |
Default metric value appropriate for the specified routing protocol. The range is from 1 to 1677214. |
The metric for redistributed, connected, and static routes is set to 25.
Router configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the default-metric command with the redistribute command to configure the same metric value for all redistributed routes except static and directly connected routes. A default metric helps to redistribute routes with incompatible metrics. Whenever external route metrics do not convert to an OSPF metric, use a default metric to enable the redistribution to proceed.
Note | The default-metric command does not apply to the redistribution of directly connected routes into OSPF. Use a route map to change the default metric for directly connected routes. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure OSPF to redistribute RIP and BGP and set the default metric to 10:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospf 201 switch(config-router)# default-metric 10 switch(config-router)# redistribute rip 109 route-map FilterRip switch(config-router)# redistribute bgp 4 route-map FilterBgp
Command |
Description |
---|---|
redistribute (OSPF) |
Redistributes routes from another routing domain into OSPF. |
To set default metric values for the Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3) routing protocol, use the default-metric command. To return to the default state, use the no form of this command.
default-metric metric-value
no default-metric metric-value
metric-value |
Default metric value appropriate for the specified routing protocol. The range is from 1 to 1677214. |
The metric for redistributed, connected, and static routes is set to 25.
Address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the default-metric command with the redistribute command to configure the same metric value for all redistributed routes except directly connected routes. A default metric helps to redistribute routes with incompatible metrics. Whenever external route metrics do not convert to an OSPFv3 metric, use a default metric to enable the redistribution to proceed.
Note | The default-metric command does not apply to the redistribution of directly connected routes into OSPF. Use a route map to change the default metric for directly connected routes. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to configure OSPFv3 to redistribute RIP and BGP and set the default metric to 10:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospfv3 201 switch(config-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast switch(config-router-af)# default-metric 10 switch(config-router-af)# exit switch(config-router)# redistribute rip 109 route-map FilterRip switch(config-router)# redistribute bgp 4 route-map FilterBgp
Command |
Description |
---|---|
redistribute (OSPFv3) |
Redistributes routes from another routing domain into OSPFv3. |
To set default metric values for the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), use the default-metric command in router address-family configuration mode. To return to the default state, use the no form of this command.
default-metric value
no default-metric [value]
value |
Default metric value. The range is from 1 to 15. |
value: 1
Router address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the default-metric command with the redistribute command to use the same metric value for all redistributed routes. A default metric helps solve the problem of redistributing routes with incompatible metrics. Whenever external metrics do not convert to RIP metrics, you can use a default metric to provide a reasonable substitute to the external metric and enable the redistribution to proceed.
This command does not require a license.
This example shows how to advertise Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routes using RIP and assign the OSPF-derived routes with a RIP metric of 10:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router rip Enterprise switch(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-af)# default-metric 10 switch(config-router-af)# redistribute ospf 109 route-map FilterOSPF
Command |
Description |
---|---|
address-family |
Enters address-family configuration mode. |
default-information originate |
Generates a default route for routes redistributed into RIP. |
redistribute |
Redistributes routes from one routing domain into another routing domain. |
To delay a state change for Object Tracking, use the delay command. To disable this function, use the no form of this command.
delay { up up-time [ down down-time ] | down down-time [ up up-time ] }
no delay
up up-time |
Delays the object track state change for an up condition. The range is from 0 to 180 seconds. |
down down-time |
Delays the object track state change for a down condition. The range is from 0 to 180 seconds. |
None
Object track mode
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.2(4) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the delay command to delay when object tracking detects an up or down state change for a tracked object or track list. This delay helps prevent state flapping.
This command does not require a license.
This example shows how to configure the delay timer for a tracked object:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# configure terminal switch(config)# track 1 interface ethernet 1/2 line-protocol switch(config-track)# delay up 30 down 30
Command |
Description |
---|---|
track |
Configures a tracked object or track list. |
To delay Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) initialization after a reload or after an interface comes up, use the delay minimum command. To disable this function, use the no form of this command.
delay minimum [min-delay] reload [reload-delay]
no delay minimum [min-delay] reload [reload-delay]
delay minimum min-delay |
Specifies the minimum time (in seconds) to delay HSRP group initialization after an interface comes up. This period applies to all subsequent interface events. The default is 0 seconds. |
reload reload-delay |
Specifies the time period to delay HSRP group initialization after the router has reloaded. This period applies only to the first interface-up event after the router has reloaded. The default is 0 seconds. |
The HSRP delay default is 0 seconds.
Interface configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use delay minimum command to delay HSRP initialization either after a reload or after an interface comes up. This configuration allows the interface and router to stabilize after the interface comes up and helps prevent HSRP state flapping.
This command does not require a license.
This example shows how to configure a minimum delay of 3 seconds, and a group initialization delay of 10 seconds:
switch(config)# configure terminal switch(config)# interface ethernet 0 switch(config)# ip address 172.16.6.5 255.255.255.0 switch(config)# hsrp 1 switch(config)# delay minimum 3 reload 10 switch(config)# ip 172.16.6.100
Command |
Description |
---|---|
feature hsrp |
Enables HSRP configuration. |
To disable checking the peer autonomous system number (ASN) during route advertisement, use the disable-peer-as-check command.
disable-peer-as-check
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Checking the ASN during route advertisement is enabled.
config-router-vrf-neighbor-af mode
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
6.2(2) |
This command was introduced. |
This command requires the MPLS Services license.
This example shows how to disable checking the peer ASN during a route advertisement:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# feature bgp switch(config)# feature-set mpls switch(config)# feature mpls l3vpn switch(config)# feature bgp switch(config)# router bgp 1.1 switch(config-router)# neighbor 33.0.1.63 remote-as 100 switch (config-router-vrf-neighbor)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-neighbor-af)# neighbor 33.0.1.63 remote-as 100 switch(config-router-vrf-neighbor)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-vrf-neighbor-af)# disable-peer-as-check switch(config-router-vrf-af)#
Command |
Description |
---|---|
address-family ipv4 unicast |
Enters address family configuration mode for configuring routing sessions that use standard IPv4 address prefixes. |
allowas-in |
Allows duplicate autonomous system number (ASN) in the AS path. Configure this parameter in the VPN address family configuration mode at the PE spokes and at the neighbor mode at the PE hub. |
neighbor |
Adds an entry to the BGP or multiprotocol BGP neighbor table for this VRF. |
For Cisco NX-OS to automatically configure a discard route for the summary address to prevent routing black holes and route loops, use the discard-route command. To prevent the discard routes from being created, use the no form of this command.
discard-route { internal | external }
no discard-route { internal | external }
internal |
(Optional) Specifies internal route. |
external |
(Optional) Specifies external route. |
Enabled
config-router mode
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
6.2(2) |
This command was introduced. |
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to automatically configure a discard route for the summary address to prevent routing black holes and route loops:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospf 201 switch(config-router)# area 0.0.0.10 range 10.3.0.0/16 switch(config-router)# summary-address 10.5.0.0/16 tag 2 switch(config-router)# no discard-route internal switch(config-router)#
This example shows how to prevent the discard routes from being created:
switch(config-router)# no discard-route internal
Command |
Description |
---|---|
router ospf |
Configures an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing instance. |
To allow the use of two administrative distances—internal and external—for the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) that could provide a better route to a node, use the distance command. To reset to default, use the no form of this command.
distance internal-distance external-distance
no distance
internal-distance |
Administrative distance for EIGRP internal routes. Internal routes are routes that are learned from another entity within the same autonomous system (AS). The distance can be a value from 1 to 255. The default value is 90. |
external-distance |
Administrative distance for EIGRP external routes. External routes are routes for which the best path is learned from a source external to this autonomous system. The distance can be a value from 1 to 255. The default value is 170. |
internal-distance: 90
external-distance: 170
Address-family configuration
Router configuration
Router VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
An administrative distance is a rating of the trustworthiness of a routing information source, such as an individual router or a group of routers. Numerically, an administrative distance is an integer from 0 to 255. In general, the higher the value, the lower the trust rating. An administrative distance of 255 means that the routing information source cannot be trusted and should be ignored.
Use the distance command if another protocol is known to provide a better route to a node than was actually learned through the external EIGRP or some internal routes should be preferred by EIGRP.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to set the administrative distance of all EIGRP 1 internal routes to 80 and all EIGRP external routes to 130:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router eigrp 1 switch(config-router)# distance 80 130
Command |
Description |
---|---|
show ip eigrp |
Displays information about the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) running on the router. |
To define an administrative distance for routes that are inserted into the routing table, use the distance configuration mode command. To return the administrative distance to its default distance definition, use the no form of this command.
distance value
no distance
value |
Administrative distance. Range: 1 to 255. Default: 115. |
The default route is not redistributed into the IS-I S routing domain.
Router configuration
VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
An administrative distance is a rating of the trustworthiness of a routing information source, such as an individual router or a group of routers. Numerically, an administrative distance is an integer from 0 to 255. In general, the higher the value, the lower the trust rating. An administrative distance of 255 means the routing information source cannot be trusted at all and should be ignored.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to set the administrative distance to 90:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router isis TEST1 switch(config-router)# distance 90
Command |
Description |
---|---|
feature isis |
Enables IS-IS on the router. |
net |
Specifies the Network Entity Title (NET) for an IS-IS process. |
router isis |
Enables IS-IS. |
To define the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) route administrative distance, use the distance command. To restore the default, use the no form of this command.
distance distance
no distance
distance |
Administrative distance for all routes local to this OSPF process. The range is from 1 to 255. |
110
Router configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the distance command to set a distance for an entire group of routes. Use the distance command when you configure multiple routing protocols, and you want to choose one set of routes over the other.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to set the distance to 200, making the route less reliable:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospf 1 switch(config-router)# distance 200 switch(config-router)# router ospf 2 switch(config-router)# distance 20
To define the Open Shortest Path First version 3 (osPFv3) route administrative distance, use the distance command. To restore the default, use the no form of this command.
distance distance
no distance
distance |
Administrative distance for all routes local to this OSPFv3 process. The range is from 1 to 255. |
110
Address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the distance command to set a distance for an entire group of routes. Use the distance command when you configure multiple routing protocols, and you want to choose one set of routes over the other.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
This example shows how to set the distance to 200, making the route less reliable:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router ospfv3 1 switch(config-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast switch(config-router-af)# distance 200
To define the administrative distance assigned to routes discovered by the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), use the distance command in the router address-family configuration mode. To remove the distance and restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.
distance admin-distance
no distance admin-distance
admin-distance |
Administrative distance to be assigned to RIP routes. The range is from 0 to 255. |
admin-distance: 120
Router address-family configuration
Release |
Modification |
---|---|
4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
Use the distance command to change the preference of RIP routes over other protocol routes. Numerically, an administrative distance is an integer from 0 to 255. In general, a higher value indicates a lower trust rating. An administrative distance of 255 means that the routing information source cannot be trusted at all and should be ignored.
The following table lists default administrative distances.
Routing Protocols |
Administrative Distance Value |
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Connected interface |
0 |
Static route out an interface |
0 |
Static route to next hop |
1 |
EIGRP Summary Route |
5 |
External BGP |
20 |
Internal EIGRP |
90 |
OSPF |
110 |
IS-IS |
115 |
RIP |
120 |
External EIGRP |
170 |
Internal BGP |
200 |
Unknown |
255 |
This command does not require a license.
This example shows how to set the administrative distance for RIP:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# router rip Enterprise switch(config-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast switch(config-router-af)# distance 85
Command |
Description |
---|---|
address-family |
Enters address-family configuration mode. |
redistribute |
Redistributes routes from one routing domain into RIP. |
To distribute routes between specific IS-IS levels, use the distribute command. To return to the default setting, use the no form of this command.
distribute { level-1 | level-2 } into { level-1 | level-2 } { all | route-map name }
level-1 |
Distributes the interarea routes into level-1 of this IS-IS instance. |
level-2 |
Distributes the interarea routes into level-2 of this IS-IS instance. |
into |
Specifies from one level to another level. |
all |
Distributes all route levels. |
route-map name |
Prevents distribution of a specific route-map. The name can be any alphanumeric string up to 63 characters. |
The default route is not distributed into the IS-S routing domain. If enabled, IS-IS allows distribution of route between level-1 and level-2 such that optimal inter-area routing could be obtained.
This command requires the Enterprise Services license.
Router configuration
VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
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4.0(1) |
This command was introduced. |
level-1 summarizes the IP address into the level-1 area. Only routes redistributed into Level 1 are summarized with the configured address and mask value.
level-2 summarizes the IP address into the level-2 area. Routes learned by level-1 routing are summarized into the level-2 backbone with the configured address and mask value. Redistributed routes into level-2 IS-IS will be summarized also.
In IS-IS, all areas are stub areas, which means that no routing information is leaked from the backbone (level-2) into areas (level-1). Level-1-only routers use default routing to the closest level-1-level-2 router in their area. This command enables you to redistribute level-2 IP routes into level-1 areas. This redistribution enables level-1-only routers to pick the best path for an IP prefix to get out of the area. This is an IP-only feature, CLNS routing is still stub routing.
For more control and scalability, a distribute list or a route map can control which level-2 IP routes can be redistributed into level-1. This command allows large IS-IS-IP networks to use areas for better scalability.
This example distributes level-1 routes into a level-2 network:
switch# configure terminal switch(config)# distribute level-1 into level-2
To disable down bit (DN bit) checking on a provider edge (PE) router, use the down-bit-ignore command in OSPF VRF configuration mode. To return to the default setting, use the no form of this command.
down-bit-ignore
no down-bit-ignore
This command has no keywords or arguments.
By default, the down bit (DN bit) checking is enabled. The information from the link-state advertisement (LSA) for which the DN bit is set is ignored during Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) route calculation.
OSPF VRF configuration
Release |
Modification |
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6.2(2) |
This command was introduced. |
This command is supported only in the OSPF VRF mode on a PE router. This command is not supported in OSPF VRF mode on a non-PE router.
When a PE receives a type 3, 5, or 7 LSA with the DN bit set from a customer edge (CE) router, the information from the LSA is not used during OSPF route calculation. The DN bit ignore feature enables a PE router to process type-3, type-5, and type-7 LSAs that are received from a CE router when the DN bit is set. When you configure the DN bit ignore feature, the PE router includes these LSAs in OSPF route computation.
The DN bit is used to prevent routing loops in Layer 3 virtual private network (VPN) configurations using OSPF in a PE-CE scenario. The DN bit ignore feature is applicable for only certain topologies, such as a hub and spoke topology of PE routers with multiple virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) CEs connected to the hub PE. You should be use this command with caution because it can cause routing loops.