I agree 100% with Rick.  Unless you are forced to use a GRE tunnel, I would
stick to the built in feature of the OSPF virtual-link.  It saves IP
addresses, and on complexity as far as I'm concerned.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Rick Mur <[email protected]> wrote:

> When the lab doesn't tell you anything, I would always use a virtual-link.
> It saves you to add IP addresses to your network (on the Tunnel), which
> might be prohibited (or sorta allowed, always very vague) and it saves you
> another type of traffic in the network, that might cause problems later on
> when you have to configure ACL's or CBAC.
>
> In real-life I would redesign the network :-)
>
>
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> On 24 dec 2009, at 09:36, Matt Hill wrote:
>
> When the lab scenario tells you that you arent allowed to use the other one
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> CCIE #22386
> CCSI #31207
>
> 2009/12/24 chtioui lazhar <[email protected]>
>
>>
>> hello experts,
>>
>> In ospf domain, to connect area x to backbone area it's better to
>> configure virtual link or tunnel interface and put it in area 0.
>>
>> i mean, to connect an area to area 0, when we choose to configure virtual
>> link and when we choose to configure tunnel interface?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> lazhar
>>
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