From: Cristi Grigore (cristi.grigore@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 11:19:28 ART
As far as I know, OSPF does not support redistributing a default
static route. The only way of doing this in OSPF is with the use of
default-information originate.
Michael, you could try creating a loopback on the PIX and placing that
in area 0.
my 2c
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:12 AM, WorkerBee <ciscobee@gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to do a manual static routes and do a redistribution. The
> default route will still be sent out to that particular area. This put
> your PIX into ASBR mode instead of ABR where Area0 is not required.
>
> There maybe other better ideas to come along.
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> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Michael Whittle <mgwhittle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a problem I'm actually working on at work but is related to the CCIE
> > lab studies. I'm stuck and don't understand why OSPF is behaving a certain
> > way. I had to convert a flat OSPF network into a segregated network using
> > multiple areas split by a firewall. What I did was created a separate area
> > for each customer and trunked those areas into a PIX using multiple VLAN's.
> > The PIX is running OSPF on each VLAN and advertising a default route into
> > each area. Each area is advertising it's routes to the PIX. The PIX has full
> > visibility of all the networks in the areas. Now I know that you will need a
> > backbone area 0 to route between these areas. I thought adding one of the
> > core networks on the PIX into area 0 might be enough to get this working but
> > it seems not. Do you actually need to pass traffic through area 0 for areas
> > to communicate or is it enough for the ABR to just contain an area 0 and
> > other areas?
> >
> > I'm able to communicate between all areas without a problem because the PIX
> > knows about all networks and receiving them correctly. All the areas need is
> > the default route to get the traffic to the PIX. The problem I have is one
> > of those areas now needs some of the specific routes from one of the other
> > areas. There's no filtering in place but for some reason the destination
> > area is only receiving a default route and nothing else. It's just a
> > standard area and I'm just originating a default route. What am I missing
> > here? Originating a default route on a PIX shouldn't suppress other routes
> > would it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike
> >
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-- Thank you, Cristi Grigore
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