RE: OSPF areas

From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 15:21:17 GMT-3


At 08:12 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, groupstudy@bekmezian.com wrote:
>Based on my research, there is no such thing as RFC 3509.
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>http://www.ietf.org/iesg/1rfc_index.txt
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>To answer your question, those two areas will not exchange routes without
>some kind of redistribution.
>
>Regards,
>
>George Bekmezian
>CCIE# 10704

I am also not aware of a 3509, but the below draft has long discussed
alternatives for non zero ABR functionality. I am not sure if anyone has
code for it however.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-abr-alt-05.txt

>"Nawaz, Ajaz" <Ajaz.Nawaz@bskyb.com>
>Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
>04/01/2003 06:51 AM
>Please respond to
>"Nawaz, Ajaz" <Ajaz.Nawaz@bskyb.com>
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>To
>"'McCallum, Robert'" <Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com>, "'Ccielab'
>(E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>cc
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>Subject
>RE: OSPF areas
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>using one ospf process per abr ?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: McCallum, Robert [mailto:Robert.McCallum@let-it-be-thus.com]
>Sent: 01 April 2003 13:19
>To: 'Ccielab' (E-mail)
>Subject: OSPF areas
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>Folks,
>
>Just been reading RFC3509 which clearly states that you do not need to
>have
>all ospf router areas attaching to the backbone area i.e. you can attach
>area 1 and area 2 direct and traffic will flow through this link (without
>the use of a virtual link). Has anyone out there actually configured
>this,
>or has anyone found anything on the cisco website relating to this.
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>Robert McCallum CCIE #8757
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