OSPF Virtual Link Question

From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 10:05:22 GMT-3


   
I'm finishing up Fatkid 501 expert redistribution and came across an
interesting issue.

Router 4 and 5 are connected through ethernet in area 2. Router 5 is
also connected to area 0. Router 4 is connected to area 3. Obviously
the area 3 must use area 2 as transit for the virtual link.

It then appears that router 4 is treated as if it's in area 0, as far as
I can tell. Router 5 had a connected /28 that I tried to make into a
/24 announcement for router 4's redistribution into IGRP and RIP. I
used AREA 0 RANGE command. However, it still showed up as a /28 in
router 4's routing table. Once I removed the virtual link, the route
was announced as a /24.

Basically, what I had to end up doing is adding a loopback address on R4
from an unused part of the /24 range and summarize. But this solution
seems so kludgy. Can anyone else think of another way to do this?

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Thanks,

Jason Gardiner Supervisor, Engineering Services Sprint E|Solutions

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