CCIE Practical Studies: Security (CCIE Self-Study)

Chapter 13. Redistribution

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Metrics

• Administrative distance

• Avoiding problems due to redistribution

• Configuring redistribution of routing information

In this chapter, you look at the redistribution of routes from one protocol or autonomous system to another. Redistribution of routes from one routing protocol or autonomous system into another is an integral part of the CCIE Security lab exam. You will be asked to redistribute the routes from one protocol into another and to possibly modify their metrics and/or filter the routes injected into or from a routing protocol.

Redistribution occurs whenever you use a routing protocol to advertise routes that are learned by some other means such as by another routing ...