Re: Off Subject - OPSF best practice

I can see both ways here -- Right NOW it might not be all that useful
if you only have 16 remote sites, each with say an edge router back to
HQ.

However, if you design correctly now you can always expand later and
not have to worry about redesigning your network

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Dufour, Andre <Andre.Dufour_at_paetec.com> wrote:
> Number of users really does not matter too much. Subnets matter.
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> If it's only 16 sites and 1-2 subnets per site, that's 32 routes which really is fine. Also, how many routers are running OSPF matters if there's going to be a ton.....
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> Andre
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> In my opinion, you will have more control and better performance if you have them in separate areas...
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> Does it make sense in OSPF from performance for, a firm of 1000 users in
> 16 WAN locations to have different OSPF areas for each office rather than putting everyone in Area 0?
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