Re: Put the loopback in appropriate Area or Routing Domains

From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 14:16:33 GMT-3


On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:34:42AM -0700, diptish doshi wrote:
> hi all ,
>
> Many a times in ospf configurations it is written
> " Put the loopback in the appropriate area " ... im a
> bit confused with it ... as i dont understand as to on
> what criteria and what scenario should i consider
> while taking that decision ....
> Same is the case when there are various routing
> domain in the router and we have to put the loopback
> in the " APPROPRIATE " domain ...
> Can anybody guide me ... how to select this so
> called APPROPRIATE thing .????

To me, I usually interpret this statement as:

 "Put the loopback in the backbone area, or in an area that is closer toward
  the Backbone."

-J

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