Re: ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:09:45PM -0500, Nick Davey wrote: The passive keyword will advertise a network as a stub area, however as the interface is passive it cannot form a neighbor relationship with any other router in that area, or on that interface. From the man pages it would appear

Re: ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-07 Thread Esben Norby
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 00:53, Nigel Roberts wrote: Is it possible to configure an area in ospfd.conf to be a stub area? I have an area where all particpating routers (ciscos) are configured to treat it as a stub ie. router ospf 1234 ... area 1 stub ... What excactly is the

Re: ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-07 Thread Nigel Roberts
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 at 13:57:52 +0100, Esben Norby wrote: What excactly is the purpose of this? Is it some cisco trick to save memory or does it have a real purpose? It's not a cisco trick as such, since it's defined in the OSPF RFC along with NSSA (not so stubby areas) and totally stubby

ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-06 Thread Nigel Roberts
Is it possible to configure an area in ospfd.conf to be a stub area? I have an area where all particpating routers (ciscos) are configured to treat it as a stub ie. router ospf 1234 ... area 1 stub ... There doesn't appear to be a way of setting a similar option in ospfd.conf, so when I start

Re: ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-06 Thread Lars Hansson
Nigel Roberts wrote: Is it possible to configure an area in ospfd.conf to be a stub area? Yes, use the passive option. It's in the ospfd.conf man page. --- Lars Hansson

Re: ospfd participating in a stub area

2007-02-06 Thread Nick Davey
The passive keyword will advertise a network as a stub area, however as the interface is passive it cannot form a neighbor relationship with any other router in that area, or on that interface. From the man pages it would appear there is no way to specify an area as stub however Claudio or