Re: Virtual Link

From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:05:31 GMT-3


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:51:47PM -0400, gladston@br.ibm.com wrote:
> R1 is connected to R2, using OSPF stub area. R2 is connected to R3, the area is 23. R3 is connected to the backbone.
> It is necessary a virtual link between R2 and R3. No problem here.

Yeppers. The stub area still needs to be hooked up to Teh Backbone in order for
its LSA's to propagate throughout your OSPF doamin. The area 23 will be running
the vlink as a transit area.

>
> Say R2-R3 link was also stub area. OSPF rules say we can not configure virtual link over stub. What would be the solution? (tunnel between R2 and R3?)

I would say tunnel is probably the only solution..

-J

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