Re: OSPF Area Design in Large Networks

From: CCIEin2006 (ciscocciein2006@gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2006 - 10:37:26 ART


Thanks guys.

So if you had two data centers, would you put both data centers in area 0 or
would you use a different area number for each data center?

On 5/30/06, Jeff Theunissen <jhtemail@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> I work with a large OSPF Network with over 57'000 clients. This network
> is a star network utilising area 0 at the core. The sub area's are based on
> what we call clusters which are the way the sites are brokens down. These
> clusters are given sections of the IP Address subnetting, this provides a
> convienient point for summarizing the address space.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> *CCIEin2006 <ciscocciein2006@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> Being that my OSPF experience is limited to small environments with one
> area
> (area 0) I would like to know how big companies do OSPF.
> For example, when would they decide to create multiple areas?
> How do they usually assign areas - by geographic area, by department, by
> function?
> Are virtual links common practice in the real world?
>
> Thanks
>
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