Yes, they are set to redistribute attached routes. The riverstone has a number of directly attached networks and most of the mikrotiks will be running PPPoE servers and have directly attached networks. So is this nothing to worry about or would I be better to configure this some other way?
Thanks. -Paul On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Patrick Cole wrote: > Paul, > > Are you redistributing any other routes into OSPF? > > When you do this it will make your router an ASBR. > > Pat > > Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:05:25AM -0700, Paul Gerstenberger wrote: > > >> The best way to transition from our switched network to routed that I can >> figure is to set up the existing VLANs for our geographic areas as OSPF >> areas and start dividing off our existing tower sites with mikrotiks >> on-site. I've had a backbone area set up between our Riverstone (ASBR) and >> mikrotik routers (ABRs), and now I've created the additional areas for the >> three vlans. >> >> The riverstone has the default route out of the network and is DR for >> backbone area 0 and is only a member of area 0, so it should be the ASBR. By >> my reckoning, the backbone mikrotiks should be ABRs (members of area 0 and >> 1, 2, 3), then the tower site mikrotiks will be members of 1, 2, OR 3. >> >> But, they're all showing as ASBRs, and I'm not understanding why. They're >> all only running OSPF, and there is only one router (only in area 0) with a >> static default route out of the network. Any thoughts why I'm seeing this? >> >> Here is a simple example of my OSPF configuration. In reality the IPs are >> different and there will be more routers in each zone, but first things >> first...: >> >> Area 0 (broadcast), 10.0.0.0/27, riverstone-1 ASBR is 10.0.0.1 and >> mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.2 >> Area 1 (NBMA), 10.0.0.32/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.33 and mikrotik-2 @ >> tower A is 10.0.0.34 >> Area 2 (NBMA), 10.0.0.64/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.65 and mikrotik-3 @ >> tower B is 10.0.0.66 >> Area 3 (NBMA), 10.0.0.96/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.97 and mikrotik-4 @ >> tower C is 10.0.0.98 >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Paul >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
