Description: The default administrative distance to associate with AS-external routes learned by OSPF. Routes with lower distances are preferred. By default, OSPF routes have an administrative distance of 110.

Note that the administrative distance settings for OSPF do not affect the choice of routes within OSPF. OSPF will still prefer intra-area routes and inter-area routes over AS-external routes even if hpicfOspfExternalDistance is lower than the hpicfOspfIntraAreaDistance or hpicfOspfInterAreaDistance. The appropriate administrative distance value is applied to the route that OSPF selects as its best route to a destination and is used to decide whether OSPF's route is preferred over a route from some other source.