Re: Maximum Number of ospf areas configurable on a router

From: Fahad Khan (fahad.khan@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 11:57:59 ART

Yeah.There are more points.If i am not wrong,It also depends upon how many
Interfaces we have on a router. After all , we have to declare an inteface
as a member of certain area. So far loopbacks are concerned,

R1(config)#interface loopback ?
  <0-2147483647> Loopback interface number

regards,

On 8/20/08, Marca Porte <marc.a.laporte@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Uhm... I make the silly assumption that one cannot configure 4294967295
> areas on a single router.
> This number is 2^32 and so gives room for using dotted decimal as area
> numbers (for convenience)
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Fahad Khan <fahad.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear John,
>>
>> R1(config-router)#area ?
>> <0-4294967295> OSPF area ID as a decimal value
>> A.B.C.D OSPF area ID in IP address format
>>
>> HTH
>>
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>> On 8/20/08, john edward <john4edward@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Guys,
>> >
>> > Please does anyone know if there is a limit or restriction on the number
>> of
>> > areas that can be configured on a single backbone router. or number of
>> > areas
>> > in one network
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Edward
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