RE: ospf without area 0

From: William.Nellis@cox.com
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 10:53:01 ART


Does it explicitly say no to area 0? Have you tried running area 0 on a
loopback?

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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Frank
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:26 PM
To: Duane Dewitt
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: ospf without area 0

Frank <ocsic@web.de>Duane Dewitt schrieb:

Hi,

it seems like there are IOS versions out, where this might work, but
with my versions it does not.

As looking into the archive, there was a discussion on the three months
ago. With the result, that
it worked and it worked not also with multiple areas.

Frank
> As far as I know you are able to run a single non-zero OSPF area, but
if
> you want to run multiple areas you must have area 0 between them.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Frank
> Sent: 16 November 2006 07:49 AM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: ospf without area 0
>
> Hi,
>
> i came about a topic where there is no area 0 configured. There have
> been three different areas but no area 0.
> One area is connected over a virtual link to the other and that's it.
>
> I could not get the virutal link to work, without area 0. I read about

> someone geting this to work.
>
> Is it possible to have a converged network without area 0? RFC 3509
> tells it has to have one.
>
>
> Frank
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