RE: rare OSPF question [7:69819]

2003-05-30 Thread Jörg Buesink
Do you use virtual links for connecting the two backbone area's?


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Re: rare OSPF question [7:69819]

2003-05-31 Thread Brian W.
A common use is to join 2 non connected segments of the same area.  A famous
interview question will go something like, "If I needed to have a
discontiguous area zero, could I do it and if so how?"
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/104/ospfdb7.html

Brian

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> Do you use virtual links for connecting the two backbone area's?




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RE: rare OSPF question [7:69819]

2003-05-31 Thread Sourabh Shikhare
Hello Curious,

To answer your questions:

1. router C is ABR although no traffic can pass between area A and B through
C unless you have some virtual links between router C and A or B.

2. This won't cause any non-stable ospf database

3. There is no way for communication between two non-backbone areas except
through backbone area.

4. Use virtual links.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks
Sourabh


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RE: rare OSPF question [7:69819]

2003-05-31 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
I can't seem to find the original message with the other questions, 
but let me comment on the discontiguous area 0.0.0.0 problem. 
There's an "inside the box" solution using OSPF facilities, and what 
may be a more general "outside the box" solution.

Using a virtual link assumes that the discontiguous parts of area 
0.0.0.0 can at least reach a common router in a nonzero area.  More 
often than not, this will involve two routers.

But what if area 0.0.0.0 is discontiguous because the path between 
backbone routers has to go through a non-OSPF routing domain, and 
there's no common non-backbone area through which you can route a 
virtual link?

I've fixed this problem (e.g., two parts of OSPF area 0.0.0.0 
separated by EIGRP) with a tunnel through the non-OSPF backbone, the 
subnet associated with the tunnel being made part of area 0.0.0.0. 
It happened that I used GRE, but other tunneling protocols should 
work.




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RE: rare OSPF question [7:69819]

2003-05-31 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
I can't seem to find the original message with the other questions, 
but let me comment on the discontiguous area 0.0.0.0 problem. 
There's an "inside the box" solution using OSPF facilities, and what 
may be a more general "outside the box" solution.

Using a virtual link assumes that the discontiguous parts of area 
0.0.0.0 can at least reach a common router in a nonzero area.  More 
often than not, this will involve two routers.

But what if area 0.0.0.0 is discontiguous because the path between 
backbone routers has to go through a non-OSPF routing domain, and 
there's no common non-backbone area through which you can route a 
virtual link?

I've fixed this problem (e.g., two parts of OSPF area 0.0.0.0 
separated by EIGRP) with a tunnel through the non-OSPF backbone, the 
subnet associated with the tunnel being made part of area 0.0.0.0. 
It happened that I used GRE, but other tunneling protocols should 
work.




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