From: Muhamamd Durrani (dan_schaw@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 13:53:45 GMT-3
In addition :
Always type 2 is selected over type 1 unless two equal
cost path to the same destination exists.
Regards,
--- Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com> wrote:
> This is the designed behavior of the protocol. Here
> is an excerpt from 2328.
>
> Path-type
> There are four possible types of paths used
> to route traffic to
> the destination, listed here in decreasing
> order of preference:
> intra-area, inter-area, type 1 external or
> type 2 external.
> Intra-area paths indicate destinations
> belonging to one of the
> router's attached areas. Inter-area paths
> are paths to
> destinations in other OSPF areas. These
> are discovered through
> the examination of received summary-LSAs.
> AS external paths are
> paths to destinations external to the AS.
> These are detected
> through the examination of received
> AS-external-LSAs.
>
>
>
>
> At 10:06 PM 4/2/2002 -0600, Jason T. Rohm wrote:
> >Under what conditions would an OSPF router select a
> higher cost route over a
> >lower cost route?
> >
> >Circumstance:
> >
> >I have a router that is picking a higher cost
> INTRA-area route over a lower
> >cost INTER-area route. I have not changed the
> administrative distance of the
> >inter-area or intra-area routes.
> >
> >What would cause this?
> >
> >-Jason T. Rohm
>
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