32 megs? Wow... Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Sep 8, 2015 8:55 PM, "Justin Wilson - MTIN" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Areas came to being when routers had 32 megs of ram small processors. It > was mainly a mechanism to cut down on cpu/memory utilization. Areas have > advantages in certain designs, but not like they used to. > > > Justin Wilson > [email protected] > > --- > http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO > xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth > > http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman > Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > > On Sep 8, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yup … have seen some **really** large networks run everything in backbone > area … > > In previous job, we had 6000+ routes in backbone area with no noticeable > issues. > > Paul > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Mathew Howard > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 8, 2015 3:28 PM > *To:* af <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Some OSPF Questions... > > I have everything in area 0 too, and we've get well over 100 routers > running OSPF and I really don't see any good reason to change it at this > point. > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:08 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > > I run the backbone/area 0 only. But I have less than 15 routers speaking > OSPF. Convergence time is fine so I see no reason to go to multi-area any > time soon. > > > On 9/8/2015 12:39 PM, Christopher Gray wrote: > > Can an area have multiple ABR routers connecting to area 0 (Is there any > way to add redundancy to an area)? > > How big is too big for an OSPF database (At what point should one really > start using areas)? > > With Mikrotik hardware, if there is no current need for VPLS tunnels or > MPLS-TE, is there any benefit to running MPLS vs just OSPF? [I'm running it > on some my network, and I'm debating whether to take the time to implement > it everywhere.] > > Thanks - Chris > > >
