Re: URGENT - Help needed

From: Denise Donohue (fradendon@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 21:27:13 GMT-3


Sounds like you've been doing alot of reading, and that is very good. The best way to understand this information to the level you need to for the exam, is to test your situations on routers, and draw up your own list of answers. Make a list of all these questions, then go though and test them all, recording your results. THEN you will own that knowledge.

Be the router!

-- Denise, #9566
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Hunt Lee
  To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
  Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:29 PM
  Subject: URGENT - Help needed

  Hello Group,

  I want to clarify / confirming my understanding regarding filtering
  routes with distribute-lists... and would appreciated if anyone could
  shed some light on this ;)

  distribute-list X in - filters routes learned via all incoming
  interfaces from going into the routing table

  distribute-list X out - filters any external redistributed routes from
  other protocols.

  Ok... as for OSPF:-

  distribute-list X in - will still filters routes from all incoming
  interfaces from entering into the routing table. I have read on
  Parkhurst (OSPF Command & Reference) saying that this command can
  filters "O" & "O IA" route, but not "O E2" routes, yet I have also read
  on other books saying that only "O IA" routes can be filtered by this,
  so which is correct?

  Also, since OSPF uses LSAs, where OSPF neighbors determines routes from
  the info in the Link State database, this command won't stop the routes
  from going into OSPF Topology database.

  distribute-list X in <Serial 0> - same as above, except the filtering
  only applied for routes learned via a specific interface.

  distribute-list X out - I have read from different books (as well as
  CCO regarding this). Dr Parkhurst (OSPF Command & Reference) says that
  this command is useless / has no effect on OSPF... yet I have read on
  other sources saying this will still work, where ALL different external
  protocols will be filtered with the list (e.g. if EIGRP & RIP are both
  redistributed into OSPF, then they would both be filtered).

  distribute-list X out <rip> - filters only a specific external
  redistributed protocol (O E2) from entering into the ASBR's own OSPF
  database, hence these external routes will be prevented to be
  advertised to the rest of OSPF domain.

  ... Apart from those, is it true that I should only use the above 4
  commands from OSPF ABR or OSPF ASBR??

  Hunt



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