Re: OSPF area ID (big fight at work)

From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 21:46:52 GMT-3


Outside of overlapping summary addresses, what types of things are common?

At 03:14 PM 9/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>It's a dangerous thing to do to re-use the same area ID's within a single
>OSPF domain. Routers will be confused, disruptive routing and routing
>loops might occur if you do this.
>
>
>
>- Sean Liu
>
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>
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>Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
>09/20/2002 03:48 PM AST
>Please respond to "Rick"
>
>To: "Frank Maisano" <FrankM@netarch.com>, "Ccielab \(E-mail\)"
><ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>cc:
>bcc:
>Subject: Re: OSPF area ID (big fight at work)
>
>And if the Area id is not carried in the LSA header than it wouldn't
>matter
>when the ABR floods summary LSAs across area 0. The only place area ids
>must
>match is in the hello packet to form and adjacency between the
>corresponding
>ABR and internal router. The requirement is simply all non-area 0 area
>must
>talk to area 0....
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Maisano" <FrankM@netarch.com>
>To: "'Rick'" <ccie_2003@hotmail.com> "Ccielab (E-mail)"
><ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 3:45 PM
>Subject: RE: OSPF area ID (big fight at work)
>
> > Sounds correct to me. You can have 'router ospf 1' and then have the
>same
> > area configured for multiple subnets or you can have different areas
> > configured. The router doesn't even need an 'area 0' statement unless
>it
>is
> > an ABR. If it is just another internal router to a particular area
>(not
> > zero) it would not have an area0 at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick [mailto:ccie_2003@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:50 PM
> > To: Ccielab (E-mail)
> > Subject: OSPF area ID (big fight at work)
> >
> >
> > Can someone tell me that I can use the same OSPF area multiple times
>in
>the
> > same process as long it is talking to area 0. The area ID is not
>carried
>in
> > the LSA header.



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