Description: The default administrative distance to associate with inter-area 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 over inter-area routes, even if hpicfOspfInterAreaDistance is lower than hpicfOspfIntraAreaDistance. It will also still prefer inter-area routes over AS-external routes even if hpicfOspfExternalDistance is lower than 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.