unable to change administrative distance for EIGRP external routes

[Aoi]

Hi
I have a very simple lab where I am trying to redistribute RIP 192.168.100.0/24 to EIGRP applying a different AD value for the external route. However, I am seeing the default 170 for the advertisements I receive on Router2.

Could any experts see what is causing this issue?

Router1
router eigrp 1
network 10.1.0.0 0.0.255.255
redistribute rip metric 1000000 1 255 1 1500
distance eigrp 90 100

Router2
D EX 192.168.100.0/24 [170/3072] via 10.1.2.2, 00:00:08, GigabitEthernet0/1
[170/3072] via 10.1.1.2, 00:00:08, GigabitEthernet0/0

[David Ruess · Accepted solution]

Hello,

That command is for local use only I believe. So it won’t transfer to R2. 

If you want to change the distance of received routes I believe you need to use an ACL with the distance command and even then it may only work for internal routes.

Also keep in mind Administrative Distance is NON-TRANSITIVE - which means its not sent in any update - every router is programmed with the AD of each routing protocol so there is no need.

-David

[Aoi]

Oh... I see. Thank you very much!