From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 00:51:32 GMT-3
At 10:38 AM -0400 9/12/03, Paul Borghese wrote:
>Nick,
>
>The process IDs are of local significance only. They are used to
>distinguish between multiple OSPF processes in the configuration and are not
>passed between routers.
>
>So why would you need multiple OSPF processes running? One reason would be
>if you are connecting two OSPF networks and need to redistribute between
>networks.
>
>Take care,
>
>Paul Borghese
Not sure anyone is asking this question, but when I last looked at
the code, Bay/Nortel/Wellfleet RS supported only one OSPF process.
You could designate a backup processor (soloist), but it would be for
the same process.
So then why have a process ID at all if you only can have one
process? Historical reasons for one approach to BGP-OSPF
interaction, which has been declared Historical (i.e., obsolete) by
the IETF.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>Jaksec, Nick
>Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:49 AM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Cisco to Nortel OSPF question
>
>I have a Cisco router running OSPF with Process ID 1 and a Nortel router
>running a Process ID 811. Can these both talk to one another if the Process
>ID's are different. I know running Cisco to Cisco via different Process ID's
>works but I need to know if it will work with Cisco to Nortel. Any help
>would be appreciated, thanks!!
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