Rather than run OSPF to customers, it is generally much better to have
them use a default route to the ISP and for the ISP to run static routes to
the customer. OSPF to the customer is a huge land mine for the ISP and
should be avoided in almost every case.
Don
""Chris Headings"" wrote in message
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> Good morning all. I was wondering if someone could lend me a little help
> about engineering OSPF in the backbone for an ISP network. I just had a
> couple of questions and hopefully someone can give me some guidance.or
even
> some CCO links with some specific examples or better yet any material
> anywhere.
>
> Say, for example, that a customer has a small block of IP's and a
> distribution router knows where that block is, via a connected route, like
a
> /30 on a serial link. But later down the line the customer requests an
> additional block of 64 IP addresses, what is the best way to send this
block
> to the customer? Do I need to run OSPF on the customer equipment? If the
> customer router is not running OSPF, how do the routers know how to get to
> this destination? I assume via static routing???
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> Chris
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