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Re: (ASCEND) OSPF and Area Border Router on Max
At 07:43 AM 10/1/97 -0400, Robert A. Pickering Jr. wrote:
>OSPF Users,
>
>How can you make a Max be an Area Border Router?
>In designing our OSPF network, I'd like to make the
>Maxes all part of Area 0, with my core routers, but put all
>the WAN ports for the Maxes in seperate areas. That way I won't
>get the route updates for the WAN ports propogated through Area 0.
>OSPF should summarize the networks that are assigned there, and
>keep the individual link-state announcements about all the /32's
>to itself.
>
>However, I don't see anywhere on the Max, or in the docs, or on the
>web site, that leads me to believe this is possible. The Area assignment
>appears to be for the box, not for the interfaces as I'd expect.
Somewhere in the DOC's we say that we do not recommend this. The Max is
simply not a backbone router and as such, does not support ABR functionality.
Matt Holdrege - http://www.ascend.com - matt@ascend.com
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