Cisco ASR 9000 Series Configuration Guide

Administrative Distance
An administrative distance is a rating of the trustworthiness of a routing information source. In general, the
higher the value, the lower the trust rating. For information on specifying the administrative distance for BGP,
see the BGP Commands module of the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router Routing Command
Reference
Normally, a route can be learned through more than one protocol. Administrative distance is used to discriminate
between routes learned from more than one protocol. The route with the lowest administrative distance is
installed in the IP routing table. By default, BGP uses the administrative distances shown in Table 1: BGP
Default Administrative Distances, on page 42.
Table 1: BGP Default Administrative Distances
FunctionDefault ValueDistance
Applied to routes learned from
eBGP.
20External
Applied to routes learned from
iBGP.
200Internal
Applied to routes originated by the
router.
200Local
Distance does not influence the BGP path selection algorithm, but it does influence whether BGP-learned
routes are installed in the IP routing table.
Note
In most cases, when a route is learned through eBGP, it is installed in the IP routing table because of its
distance (20). Sometimes, however, two ASs have an IGP-learned back-door route and an eBGP-learned
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Administrative Distance

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	ASR 9000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English