>Hey Group,
> I recently pondered something while at work and nobody could give me a
>strait answer. Actually I feel a little embarrassed asking this due to me
>being an NP and I feel like I should know this. Guess this type of thing
>doesn't come up much around me. Question is: Can poison reverse (PR) be used
>with OSPF?
Not as such, but there is a mechanism that can be used with a similar
effect. When a router desires to withdraw an LSA it originated, it
sets the age field to a maximum and refloods it.
>I know split horizon is used with it but I just cant see why/how
>poison reverse would. My definition of PR is that it sets the link to the
>max hop count and deems it unreachable, hence the term poison. I can't see
>how this would work with OSPF because it doesn't use a hop count. Maybe I'm
>confused about PR. Does it set the link to the highest metric, and not hop
>count? Maybe I'm just used to hearing about PR in discussions of RIP that
>I'm assuming it set the hop count to the highest and has nothing to do with
>metric. Any clarity would help, thanks all...
>
>...sorry for the rambling...
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