RE: ospf discard-route external... please explain.

From: Jayson Tobias (jaysont@aos5.com)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 18:15:54 GMT-3


Lee -
I believe the "no" version of this command removes the summarized route
to Null for the corresponding area # range command. For example -

Router ospf 100
 area 4 range 110.99.0.0 255.255.0.0

#sho ip route
...
C 110.99.7.7/32 is directly connected, Loopback0
O 110.99.0.0/16 is a summary, 00:02:02, Null0
O 110.99.1.32/27 [110/74] via 110.99.50.5, 00:02:03, Ethernet0/0

router ospf 100
 no discard-route internal
 area 4 range 110.99.0.0 255.255.0.0

C 110.99.7.7/32 is directly connected, Loopback0
O 110.99.1.32/27 [110/74] via 110.99.50.5, 00:02:31, Ethernet0/0

The Null route is no longer there... so the "discard-route internal" is
the default form of the command, and therefore doesn't show up in the
config...

HTH,
Jayson

PS - The 28th, right? Good luck...

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Lee Carter
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 3:53 PM
To: CCIE LAB
Subject: ospf discard-route external... please explain.

All,

I am having a difficult time understanding exactly
what the discard-route command does under the ospf
router configuration sub-command.

I konw what the generic deffinition is:

discard-route
To reinstall either an external or internal discard
route that was previously removed, use the
discard-route command in router configuration mode. To
remove either an external or internal discard route,
use the no form of this command.

discard-route [external | internal]

no discard-route [external | internal]

Syntax Description
 external
 (Optional) Reinstalls the discard route entry for
redistributed summarized routes on an Autonomous
System Boundary Router (ASBR).
 
internal
 (Optional) Reinstalls the discard-route entry for
summarized internal routes on the Area Border Router
(ABR).
 

I don't quite grasp what they are trying to do here.
Some explaination in different terms may be helpfull.

Thanks,

Lee

                



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