RE: OSPF Jargon..

From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2006 - 17:25:36 GMT-3


        "O" is Intra-Area and "O IA" is Inter-Area. An Inter-Area route
is a Summary LSA, while a Summary Route can be either a Summary LSA or
an External LSA... go figure :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Victor Cappuccio
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:05 PM
> To: CCIE LAB
> Subject: OSPF Jargon..
>
> Hello All,
>
> Here is a Silly question (& its not a joke) I have, Ok The books and
> the things I hear is that an IO Ospf Route is an intra area route and
> the routes with a O in the OSPF jargon is an Inter area route..
>
> Why not calling them OSPF Summary Route? Instead of the both 2 above
> that sounds the same when you hear them?? And maybe the real summary,
> just aggregate (or its because the real Summary Route Type 5 E(1|2)
or
> Type 7 N(1|2) can come from 2 sources??)
>
> Thanks
> Confused
>
>



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