ospf routing question

From: hoon (urlee21@kornet.net)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 05:29:51 GMT-3

hi group,

Is there any way that a destination is routed over inter-area network rather than intra-area network???

This is an example diagram;

(R1) ---- area 0 (metric 1) ----- (R2)
 | |
 | |
area 1 (metric 1) area 1 (metric 1)
 | |
(R3) ----- area 1 (metric 2) -----(R4 )
                                                  |
                                            ---------
                                             Network A

A normal behavior of OSPF routing for Network A from R1, based on its preference to intra-area routes over inter-area routes is the following;
(R1) -> (R3) -> (R4) -> A

Without combining two areas into one area, or extra cabling, is there any way a packet destined to network A to be routed over the path "(R1) -> (R2) -> (R4) -> A" ??

Thank you.

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