I don't think Chris' was asking how to configure OSPF for point-to-point but
rather why.
>From my experience, you can use it for when you don't want to subnet each
network and you can save IP Address by going to a multipoint network using
unnumbered interface on the nodes that connect to the frame cloud
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> interface serial 0
> no ip address
> encapsulation frame-relay
>
> interface serial 0.1 point-to-point
> ip address x.x.x.x x.x.x.x
> ip ospf network point-to-point
> Howard Choi
> CCNP, CCDP
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> From: Burnham, Chris
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> Subject: OSPF over NBMA [7:7941]
> Date: Monday, June 11, 2001 4:30PM
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> Whenever reading about OSPF there seems to be a great deal of emphasis on
> NBMA in a multipoint enviroment.
> Why would you want to implement mulipoint when you could uses point to
point
> between remote offices connecting back to area0 ??
>
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