RE: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-03-01 Thread Hennen, David
Jenny, Yes, the 4500 will be the only router at the remote site. There will be a Catalyst 5500 and there will be several intra-area vlans being routed by the 4500, I'll try summarizing those. It should be a fun project. If things go well, there might be a couple of other sites that would be se

Re: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-02-28 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>Got it! Because of my lack of experience with OSPF, the original >question confused me until I thought through the configuration. Until >then, I still thought of routers or interfaces belonging to areas. What >really helped me to conceptualize this issue was to toss out that idea >and think of

Re: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-02-28 Thread John Neiberger
Got it! Because of my lack of experience with OSPF, the original question confused me until I thought through the configuration. Until then, I still thought of routers or interfaces belonging to areas. What really helped me to conceptualize this issue was to toss out that idea and think of only

Re: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-02-28 Thread Scott Jensen
David, you put the ABR at the main location with one interface (usually LAN) in area 0 and the other in the area created for the remote location. All interfaces at the remote location would then be associated with the area created for this new site. The ABR is located at the main location because

Re: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-02-28 Thread Oleg Mazurov
John Neiberger wrote: > > Are there any rules of thumb regarding this? I looked through the > Cisco The main rule is: when you are doing routing, forget about routers (boxes). Router doesn't make any sense. Think interfaces. In your situation, when you have your interfaces on a link between th

Re: OSPF design question re: location of Area Border Router

2001-02-28 Thread Andrew Cook
If the remote 4500 is the ABR, then it will need to receive LSAs from area 0, removing the benefit of making the new site totally stubby. If the 7513 is the ABR, the wan link to the remote site will only need to carry a default route rather than the routes for your 100+ node area 0. So I would de