From: Michael Jia (mjia@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 19:39:20 GMT-3
Hi, another question for virtual-link.
>From the books I read, virtual-link is considered a special software
interface
to OSPF. Is this interface belongs to area 0?
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Todd Carswell
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:07 PM
> To: Przemyslaw Karwasiecki; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: OSPF virtual links
>
>
> BTW - the virtual-link will NOT depend on routing table entries. It looks
> at the ospf database to find the RID. Thus, you don't have to worry that
> your router will not "see" the RID of the neighbor on the other
> side of the
> transit area.
>
> Todd
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Przemyslaw Karwasiecki" <karwas@ifxcorp.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:12 PM
> Subject: OSPF virtual links
>
>
> > Group,
> >
> > Simple question:
> >
> > Is it possible to create virtual link (connect virtual areas)
> > using interface address instead of OSPF router ID?
> > Cisco documentation says:
> > area <area-id> virtual-link <router-id>
> >
> > Obviously, using RID is better for stability reasons,
> > but one can imagine hyphothetical situation when OSPF RID
> > is not in routing table, so it would not be reachable for
> > virtual-link.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Przemek
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