Michal Witte Try using area 11 range 137.20.1.0 255.255.255.192 instead.
Hope that works. Schwantz ""Michael Witte"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I am trying to do a lab that needs a inter-area ospf summary address > configured > I have two loopbacks 137.20.1.17/28 and 137.20.1.33/28. These are then of > course on networks 137.20.1.16 and 137.20.1.32. Taking the last octet of the > subnets into binary we have: > > 16= 00010000 > 32= 00100000 > Acording to Doyle and everything else I have read I should be able to > summarize by masking the first two bits. I should be able to use: > area 11 range 137.20.1.32 255.255.255.192. I am not able to and the router > says I have a invalid address/mask. Furthermore the solution to the lab uses > "area 11 range 137.20.1.0 255.255.255.0" which creates a summary address to > all addresses of 137.20.1.X. What am I missing. This does work and I am able > to ping the loopbacks but the math doesn't work for me. I should be able to > summarize the 16 and 32 subnets. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=44473&t=44465 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]