From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 23:09:38 GMT-3
At 12:30 PM 1/12/2004, Jonathan Hays wrote:
>you wrote:
>
> >I keep reading and hearing that you shouldn't inject LSA
> >type-5 into your
> >OSPF domain if you don't need to. Why not?
>
>= = =
>
>A lot depends on your topology, the size of your OSPF domain, the number
>of exits to the Internet, and so on.
>
>For example, suppose you had a small company network of less than 100
>routers and a single egress point to the Internet. There would be no
>point in injecting external LSAs into OSPF and filling up routing tables
>with unnecessary routes. A single default route pointing to the ASBR
>would suffice.
A lot of support for external free IGPs comes from service provider design
theory, where hopefully your externals are in BGP.
>The answer is, it depends.
>
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