Re: Newbe question - Relevance of OSPF

Jonathan,

It's never acceptable to have duplicate router-ids. It leads to database
problems, flood wars, and other nastiness. Process ids on the hand are
always locally significant.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Smitthers <jsmitthers2011_at_gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a new member so please excuse the question if it is too easy or
> already
> been answered 100's of times.
>
> Normally the OSPF router id is only locally significant. But I seem to
> recall reading that the router ID's must match through an MPLS connection.
> Why? That makes no sense at all! Is the router ID transmitted through
> MPLS?
>
> I appreciate the help and look forward to studying with all of you. Today
> is day 1 of a long journey!
>
> Jonathan Smitthers
>
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