From: Peter (peter@cyscoexpert.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 02:14:24 GMT-3
Actually area 256 in dotted decimal would be 0.0.1.0 and 65536 is 0.1.0.0
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky Qiang" <becky.qiang@wincomsystems.com>
To: "Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF}" <PBrown4@chartercom.com>; "Mustafa M
Bayramov" <spyroot@azeronline.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: ospf area 0.0.0.0 ?
> I think it is convertable. As we all know that there are two different
forms
> to enter the area ID, one form is in from 0 to 4,294,967,295; the other is
> 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. They are convertable with each other. For
> example, if I configure area ID as 256, the equivelent form in x.x.x.x is
> 0.0.1.255, which is 2 powered by 8. Here is another example, for area ID
> 65536, the equivelent x.x.x.x form is 0.0.255.255, which is 2 powered by
16.
>
> So, area 0 and area 0.0.0.0 is the same. Only when you go beyond 255
(which
> overflows the last octet), then you need calculation.
>
> Becky
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF}" <PBrown4@chartercom.com>
> To: "Mustafa M Bayramov" <spyroot@azeronline.com>;
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:22 PM
> Subject: RE: ospf area 0.0.0.0 ?
>
>
> > Yes,
> >
> > area ID's
> >
> > area 0 = 0.0.0.0 (backbone)
> > area 1 = 0.0.0.1
> > area 2 = 0.0.0.2
> > area 3= 0.0.0.3
> > etc..
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick B
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mustafa M Bayramov [mailto:spyroot@azeronline.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:27 PM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: ospf area 0.0.0.0 ?
> >
> >
> > Group what about area 0.0.0.0 is it same 0 area for ospf process on
> > Cisco router?
> >
> >
> > Mustafa M Bayramov
> >
> > CISSP
> > CCNP,CCDP,Cisco Security Specialist
> > Network engineer and security analyst
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