The OSPF route selection rule is that intra-area routes are preferred over inter-area routes, which are preferred over external routes. However, this rule should apply to routes learned via the same process. In other words, there is no preference between external routes from one process compared to internal routes of other process. The preference rule between a given OSPF process and any other process (be it OSPF or another routing protocol) should follow the administrative distance rule. However, because different OSPF processes will have the same administrative distance by default, OSPF distance should be configured explicitly for different OSPF processes, to achieve the desired behavior.
