Re: SOLUTION: OSPF Summary-Address (for redistrib into IGRP)

From: Ravi (s_ravichandran@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 14:17:45 GMT-3


   
Yes I agree, your solution is the best and recommended in CCO. All other are
the work around to overcome some restrictions. It is always better to know
more than one solution.

Regards,
Ravi
----- Original Message -----
From: Yorgos Katsikogiannis <gkats@algosystems.gr>
To: 'Ravi' <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com>; 'kym blair' <kymblair@hotmail.com>;
<w.schoots@chello.nl>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: SOLUTION: OSPF Summary-Address (for redistrib into IGRP)

> Hi Ravi,
>
> there is one more thing that you possibly could do to overcome this.
>
> You could create a static route of your *connected interface* using the
> major network subnet of the IGRP to a null interface (i.e if your IGRP
> is using /24, then you will have to use ip route xx.xx.xx.xx
> 255.255.255.0 null0 ) and then redistribute this static route into your
> IGRP routing protocol.
>
> You may check see that your routes are now advertised correct, but the
> bother is that you cannot use this kind of solution under lab
> circumstances.
>
> Yorgos
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Ravi
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:02 PM
> To: kym blair; w.schoots@chello.nl; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: SOLUTION: OSPF Summary-Address (for redistrib into IGRP)
>
>
> Hi Kym,
>
> If the connected interface that you are talking about is not in area 0 ,
> you may still use area range command on the other side of the link. OR
> You can do redis connected and use summary address. It works up to IOS
> 12.0.
>
> I found problem when I used the same command on IOS 12.1. It does not
> redistribute the connected interface if the interface is already in any
> of the ospf area. It works for any interface which are not in any
> routing process. Try by using secondary address to overcome this
> problem.
>
> Any one has better solution please add.
>
> Regards,
> Ravi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kym blair <kymblair@hotmail.com>
> To: <w.schoots@chello.nl>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:54 AM
> Subject: SOLUTION: OSPF Summary-Address (for redistrib into IGRP)
>
>
> > Willy's solution to use area range at the ABR before the ASBR worked;
> > both became OSPF IA /24 networks and redistributed into IGRP:
> >
> > >If you would use an area range command on R5, then it should work:
> > >area 0 range 152.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 area 0 range 152.1.2.0
> > >255.255.255.0
> >
> > Ravi's comment explains:
> >
> > Your R6 (ASBR between OSPF and IGRP) routing table shows both the
> > network
> as
> > IA entry. To summarize a IA route, you can use area range command on
> > ABRs. Summary address to summarize routes learned from another routing
>
> > process, and to be used on ASBRs. As your routes are IA routes,
> > summary address
> will
> > not work.
> >
> > Thanks for the help; also thanks to those who offered to recreate this
>
> > scenario on their labs.
> >
> > ***** This leads to one more question: ******
> >
> > If we had a directly connected interface on R6 (ASBR) with a /25 mask,
>
> > how would we summarize to a /24 to get it into IGRP (static works, but
>
> > for
> this
> > scenario cannot be used)? It wouldn't be an OSPF IA route, so we
> > couldn't use area range at the previous ABR, and summary-address
> > doesn't work (I tried).
> >
> > Kym
> >
> >
> >
> >



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