Re: OSPF Demand Circuit

From: Bill Carter (bcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 19:49:34 GMT-3


   
   No, but I understand what you are thinking...
   
   With ospf demand-circuits periodic hellos are suppressed and the
   periodic refreshes of LSAs are not flooded. OSPF packets only bring
   up the circuit when (1) LSAs are exchanged for the first time and (2)
   when a change occurs in the information the LSAs contain.
   
   Obviously you don't want the ISDN coming up every time a router
   hicups. The dialer list would prevent topology changes from bringing
   the ISDN up. Your dialer list would prevent topology changes from
   initiaing ISDN connection.
   
   You use OSPF on-demand circuits because the remote router (for
   whatever reason) needs an accurate picture of the network. Blocking
   LSAs caused by topology changes would not give an accurate picture of
   the network.
   
   From a design standpoint, what you are trying to do is prevent every
   little topology change from bring the connection up. You want to
   isolate the ISDN/OSPF demand circuit from as many LSA's as possible.
   To due this, create a Totally Stubby Area and place the OSPF demand
   circuit in this area. The TSA only sees intra-area and default
   routes. Thus very few LSA's
   
   But...with what you are preparing for you are thinking to hard! Just
   make the ISDN interface call the other router, add the interface to
   the OSPF network statement, and slap on the ip ospf demand-circuit.
   Don't put it in a TSA unless you are told to.
   
   Relax andd don't think to hard...you'll do fine.
   
   Ben Rife wrote:
   
     Do you have to create a restrictive dialer list in addition to
     using "ip ospf demand-circuit" on an ISDN line to keep OSPF from
     bringing the line up? Refer to the following: int bri 0 ip ospf
     demand-circuit dialer-group 1 dialer-list 1 proto ip list
     101 access-list 101 deny ip host any host 224.0.0.5
     access-list 101 permit ip any any Thanks, Ben
     
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   Bill Carter
   Senior Network Analyst
   Sentinel Technologies
   CCIE No.5022
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