Interarea summarization - AGAIN!

From: Voytek Mielczarek (Voytek.Mielczarek@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 22:58:41 GMT-3


   
This has been discussed here many times, but there is always a new question to
an old scenario... Lets say we have a network as below (based on Hutnik "CCIE L
ab Practice Kit" p.234).
All shown links are serial or ethernet, except R1-R5 which is ISDN backup link
that is activated when link R4-R5 goes down.

        R1 ---- R2
        |\ /
        | \ / area3
        | \ /
        | \/
        | R3
        | | area 0
        | |
        | R4
        | | area 1
 area2 | |
        ----R5-----R6 IGRP
            |
     area2 ---

Q1 is to summarise interarea routes from area 3 to area 0, so you apply "area 3
 range x.x.x.x y.y.y.y"
and a couple of routes from R4 are gone and a summary route added, DONE.

Q2 is to provide connectivity to area 2, so you create a virtual link across ar
ea 1, DONE.

Q3 configure ISDN to backup the serial R4-R5 link, so another virtual link must
 be configured between R1 and R3 in order to provide connectivity from area 2 t
o area 0 via ISDN when activated, DONE.

NOW, when a virtual link in configured between R1 and R3, internal routes from
area 3 appear again on router R4 (because we extended area 0 to R1), so we have
 to go back to Q1 to fix it!
And the fix that appears to be working is configuring exactly the same statemen
t on R1, as we used on router R3 which was "area 3 range x.x.x.x y.y.y.y". And
that removed again the interarea routes from R4 leaving only the summary route
as required in Q1.

Any comments? Is that the right solution?

Regards, Voytek
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