How can you change a route administrative distance?

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The ip route command also allows you to configure an administrative distance, which, as discussed previously, is a value used by the router to select the best route to a destination when there are two or more different routes to the same destination being reported from more than one source.

Static routes have a much lower default metric than routes learned by dynamic routing protocols, because a static route is considered to be a preferred route since someone took the trouble to enter it. Of course, if you want the static route to be used as a backup route to one learned via a dynamic routing protocol, be sure to set the administrative distance of the static route higher than that of the default dynamic routing protocol. Remember, unless you add an administrative distance value to the end of your ip route command, the administrative distance will be 1.