Re: More on OSPF route selection

From: Tony Paterra (apaterra@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 18 2006 - 21:59:00 ART


Roberto,
1.) Yup

2.) For similar (i.e. inter-area vs. inter-area)

3.) Try virtual-linking area 1 up so that you are now are comparing
apples to apples.

Can anyone elaborate in more detail?

On 5/18/06, Roberto Fernandez <rofernandez@us.telefonica.com> wrote:
> Friends,
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> Thanks for your previous answers, can we establish the following?
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> 1 - OSPF always prefers intra-area over inter-area.
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> This means that given an existing intra-area route, for a given
> destination; there is no way to trick OSPF into including on the routing
> table an inter-area route (for the same destination), regardless the
> metric values.
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> 2 - The only way to trick OSPF into including new routes on the routing
> table for a given destination is working on metrics, (through interface
> cost, neighbor cost or auto cost)
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> Now a remaining question:
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> If there are two inter-area routes on a given ABR (R2), one coming
> through area0 (through R1) and the other coming from area1(through R2),
> It is there any known trick to make OSPF include the area1 route
> together with the area0 route?
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> ---R2--
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> / |
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> A-0 / |
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> / |
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> R1 | A-1
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> \ |
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> A-0 \ |
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> \ |
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> --- R3--
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> Best Regards,
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> Roberto
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