Does anybody know how/if I can force cisco router to consider ospf route (I'll consider other igp protocol if its possible) from particular source to be prefereble over connected and locally-entered static routes. This is needed for failover project I'm doing. Please note that especially big question is with "connected" route through subinterface, which I can't find any way to override with igp, for static I could at least make them learned igp routes.
You can change the administrative distance/protocol priorities, but I think this only works for everything but connected. If I'm not mistaken (not at a router) connected is set to 0 and can't be changed. What you are proposing is dangerous. There's usually a better way to handle a backup. I'm guessing that you have a distant connection at least two hops away that when it goes down you want to activate a pvc into a frame or atm cloud. If all end points in such a cloud are routers, it's best to use a routing protocol across the cloud and make the routes unprefered. When the other routes go down, the new routes come up. With statics, the administrative distance is the last number. In BGP, we often set our null routes to 254 or 255 so that the null route is NEVER prefered over another route. Jack Bates BrightNet Oklahoma