From: Frank Jimenez (franjime@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 18:37:57 GMT-3
Niall,
No, this is correct. Every OSPF network must have a backbone area, and 0.0.
0.0 is reserved for the backbone. Therefore, if you have an OSPF network with
only one area, this single area must be the backbone, and must therefore be ide
ntified as Area 0.
Frank Jimenez, CCIE #5738
Systems Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
franjime@cisco.com
At 10:03 PM 04/30/2001 +0100, Niall El-Assaad wrote:
>In the book on this page it says "Every valid OSPF configuration must have
>an area 0, so if you use only a single OSPF area for your entire network it
>must be area 0".
>
>Surely this isn't right. If you have only one area it doesn't matter what it
>is? Does it?
>
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