administrative distance

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administrative distance - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  administrative distance
  
     <networking> A rating of the trustworthiness of a routing
     information source set by the router administrator.  In
     Cisco routers, administrative distance is a number between
     0 and 255 (the higher the value, the less trustworthy the
     source).
  
     (1998-03-10)