Re: The Forwarding Address of Type 7-to-Type 5 LSAs

From: Akhtar Rasool (akhtar.samo@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 02:58:22 ART


Hi,

What I have observed from this is same as you said. Forwarding address would
be ASBR's loopback IP provided you are advertising that loopback in
OSPF....& if not it would be the IP address of the interface from which
LSA-Type-7 is being generated.

Regards,

Akhtar

On 9/14/07, Toh Soon, Lim <tohsoon28@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> I have an ASBR in an NSSA. It is redistributing RIP into OSPF. I cover
> it's
> loopback interface in the NSSA area. The ABR of the NSSA is not configured
> to suppress the forwarding address when translating Type-7 to Type-5 LSAs.
>
> Other routers in Area 0 see the redistributed routes having the
> Advertising
> Router as the ABR's router-id and the Forward Address as the ASBR's
> loopback
> ip.
>
> When I remove the ASBR's loopback ip from the NSSA area, the Forward
> Address
> becomes the ASBR's interface IP address out which it advertised the Type-7
> LSAs.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is the normal behavior OSPF determines the
> forwarding address? Appreciate your comments.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> B.Rgds,
> Lim TS
>
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