Re: about nlsp "area-address"

From: Fred Ingham (fningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 22:03:30 GMT-3


   
John: You're right, the networks matched are 2-3. Will config and
check
out. Interesting observations. I usually use area-adress 0 0. Thanks
for bringing this up.

Cheers, Fred.

hiler john wrote:
>
> Hello Fred,
>
> I think area-address 2 fffffffe should only work for
> networks 2-3.so it doesn't mathc any ipx networks in
> my test number, but i still got correct routing table,
> included all four networks.
>
> I forgot to metion that I already turned off the ipx
> rip. So I think NLSP really automatically redistribute
> connected network.
>
> Hiler
>
> Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 3:33:39 AM, you wrote:
>
> FI> John: The area address command is used to
> summarize the routes with
> FI> route mask. area-address 2 fffffffe should work
> for networks 20-2f.
> FI> You bring up a good point as to "future
> compataility". Did you check
> FI> this out using area-address 444 fffffff0 on both
> routers (or some other
> FI> network that isn't configured)? My guess is that
> it won't work. If you FI> haven't disabled RIP you
> are probably getting the routes via RIP
> FI> redistributed into NLSP over the WAN. For a
> complete check you should
> FI> disable RIP on all NLSP interfaces.
>
> FI> NLSP does automatically redistribute IPX RIP but
> not connected, or IPX
> FI> EIGRP. I suspect you have the networks enabled
> under rip (default) and
> FI> are redistributing the routes to nlsp (also
> default). If you want to
> FI> test this - disable rip and sap on the ipxwan
> serial link with ipx nlsp
> FI> rip off and ipx nlsp sap off.
>
> FI> Let me know if this isn't what you have.
>
> FI> Cheers, Fred.
>



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