RE: (PM) OSPF confusion

sbourne (sbourne@livingston.com)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:45:46 -0800

I'm no Ciso expert, but shouldn'te definition of area 0 on the Cisco include
all the ranges within area 0 (not just those to which it is connected)? Try
adding 192.168.20.x to the Cisco's range definition.

SteveB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-portmaster-users [mailto:owner-portmaster-users]On Behalf Of
> Erik P. Power
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 1:15 PM
> To: Portmaster-Users
> Subject: (PM) OSPF confusion
>
>
> I'm a little confused about one small issue with OSPF. We were recently
> assigned two new class C's by our upstream provider, and this was my first
> chance to implement OSPF. Everything seems to be working properly--i.e. I
> haven't received any calls from people complaining about service problems,
> but I'm confused as to why our Cisco 4000's route table shows
> routes learned
> from our PM3 as external type 2s, instead of internal LSAs. Here are the
> commands I used to configure OSPF on both boxes:
>
> Assume 2 C classes, 192.168.10.0 and 192.168.20.0.
>
> Cisco 4000: (ethernet interface is network 192.168.10.1, on network
> 192.168.10.0/24)
>
> conf t
> router ospf 100
> network 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
> ^Z
> write mem
> conf t
> int e0
> ip ospf priority 50
> ip ospf hello-interval 10
> ip ospf dead-interval 40
> ip ospf authentication-key blah
> ^Z
> write mem
> conf t
> router ospf 100
> area 0 authentication
>
>
> PM3: (first assigned address 192.168.20.16, pool size 48, ether0
> address is
> 192.168.10.8)
> set ospf enable
> save all
> reboot
> set ospf priority 0
> add ospf area 0
> set ospf area 0 range 192.168.10.0/24 range 192.168.20.16/28 range
> 192.168.20.32/27
> set ether0 ospf on
> save all
> reboot
>
> Now, on the Cisco, a "sh ip route" shows the PM3's announced routes as:
> 192.168.20.0/24 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
> O E2 192.168.20.16/28 [110/2] via 192.168.10.8, 21:19:45, Ethernet0
> O E2 192.168.20.32/27 [110/2] via 192.168.10.8, 21:19:45, Ethernet0
>
>
> Shouldn't these be announced as type "O IA", or am I really
> screwing it up?
> At any rate, it all works, so I really don't have a problem. I
> just want to
> make sure that I don't have a problem waiting to bite me down the road.
> tia...
>
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