Hi Fredrik,
Note that passive interfaces are a non-standard protocol extension and are not 
subject to IETF specification. Having said that, you have misunderstood how the 
passive feature has been implemented by many vendors. The passive interface 
subnet will be advertised as a local stub network in the Router-LSA 
corresponding to the area in which they are configured. If you want to 
advertise these subnets as external routes you should not configure them as 
passive and should simply redistribute your connected routes.
Hope this helps,
Acee

From: Fredrik Liljegren 
<fredrik.liljeg...@ericsson.com<mailto:fredrik.liljeg...@ericsson.com>>
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 9:03 AM
To: OSPF WG List <ospf@ietf.org<mailto:ospf@ietf.org>>
Subject: [OSPF] ospf passive interface and redistribute ospf


Hi!

I have a scenario where I run two OSPF instances (AS) on the same router, and 
intend to share some routing information between them. One instance attaches 
locally connected networks, and one instance facing the external world.

The locally connected networks are included into OSPF as passive networks, and 
are supposed to be redistributed into the “external” OSPF instance with 
redistribute OSPF. This does not work, and I can’t find any documentation 
regarding this use case. Other OSPF networks are redistributed as expected, but 
the passive networks seems to be considered as connected even though they are 
included into with the passive feature. Are passive networks to be considered 
as any other locally connected OSPF network when it comes to redistribute OSPF, 
or is there some difference in this regards? I thought they would be treated 
the same, and am trying to convince some designers that it is, but I better 
make sure first that it actually is the case or did I misunderstand the passive 
feature?

Thanks and regards
Fredrik
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