From: Larry Roberts (larryr@netbeam.net)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 03:24:41 GMT-3
Ken,
Point-to-Multipoint is the preferred method of most people (myself
included), however the CCIE lab most often will ask you to configure certain
tasks, such as OSPF over Frame Relay in a specific manner, so you need to
know all of the different variations.
HTH,
Larry Roberts
CCIE #7886 (R&S / Security)
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: OSPF over Point-to-Multipoint - Discussion
> Hello all :)
>
> As you may gather, I am on chapter 12 of the CCIE practical studies book
> doing the OSPF Labs.
>
> I have one question.
>
> I find that when running OSPF over a frame-relay point-to-multipoint
> network, it is easier to run the "ip ospf network point-to-multipoint"
> configuration on the hub and spoke routers rather than setting neighbors
up
> and setting the hub "ip ospf priority 255" and the spokes as "ip ospf
> priority 0"
>
> I personally do not like the way the configuration in NVRAM changes so
that
> you don't see the neighbor commands in the hub router configuration when
you
> set the spoke routers ospf priority to zero and so forth.
>
> The question is (well two actually), 1. what is the preferred method and,
> 2. why would you use the neighbor/priority method as to the
> point-to-multipoint method.
>
> I fell that this is quite important to get right and study further before
I
> move forward :)
>
> Many thx as always,
>
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