Changing the administrative distance for IPv6 IS-IS

You can change the administrative distance for IPv6 IS-IS routes. The following task changes the administrative distance for the IS-IS IPv6 unicast address family.

About this task

Procedure

Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode.
```
device# configure terminal
```
Enter the router isis command to enter IS-IS router configuration mode and enable IS-IS on the device.
```
device(config)# router isis
```
Enter the address-family ipv6 unicast command to enable ISIS address-family IPv6 unicast configuration mode.
```
device(config-isis-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast
```
Enter the distance command and specify a value to change the administrative distance for the IPv6 IS-IS unicast address family.
```
device(config-router-isis-ipv6u)# distance 60
```

Example

The following example sets an administrative distance of 60 for the IPv6 unicast address family.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router isis
device(config-isis-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast
device(config-router-isis-ipv6u)# distance 60