If you are looking for documents, you might start with RFC 2328. Contiguous in this context refers to connectivity that continues without a break. In that sense, within an OSPF domain, it is necessary to maintain contiguous connectivity in the backbone. When contiguity is broken, the area is said to be partitioned. However, in your example, should a link in the triangle break, connectivity would still be contiguous as A connects to B which connects to C. Should a node in the triangle suffer outages of both connecting links, then contiguity would be severed and the area would be partitioned as that node would no longer maintain any active links to other backbone nodes.
Pete At 08:58 PM 6/6/2002 -0400, Cisco Study wrote: >Hi group, > > > >Is there any condition that OSPF area 0 must be contiguous?. > >I remembered read this some where on CCO. Is this true?. For a situation, >three ospf routers connected in a triangle shape, what if one of the link >goes down?. > >Any one experienced on this situation, please show me some documents related >to this?. > > > >Thanks in advance, > >J. > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=46016&t=45995 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
