Yes, they are set to redistribute attached routes. The riverstone has a number
of directly attached networks and most of the mikrotiks will be running PPPoE
servers and have directly attached networks. So is this nothing to worry about
or would I be better to configure this some other way?
Thanks.
-Paul
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Patrick Cole wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Are you redistributing any other routes into OSPF?
>
> When you do this it will make your router an ASBR.
>
> Pat
>
> Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:05:25AM -0700, Paul Gerstenberger wrote:
>
>
>> The best way to transition from our switched network to routed that I can
>> figure is to set up the existing VLANs for our geographic areas as OSPF
>> areas and start dividing off our existing tower sites with mikrotiks
>> on-site. I've had a backbone area set up between our Riverstone (ASBR) and
>> mikrotik routers (ABRs), and now I've created the additional areas for the
>> three vlans.
>>
>> The riverstone has the default route out of the network and is DR for
>> backbone area 0 and is only a member of area 0, so it should be the ASBR. By
>> my reckoning, the backbone mikrotiks should be ABRs (members of area 0 and
>> 1, 2, 3), then the tower site mikrotiks will be members of 1, 2, OR 3.
>>
>> But, they're all showing as ASBRs, and I'm not understanding why. They're
>> all only running OSPF, and there is only one router (only in area 0) with a
>> static default route out of the network. Any thoughts why I'm seeing this?
>>
>> Here is a simple example of my OSPF configuration. In reality the IPs are
>> different and there will be more routers in each zone, but first things
>> first...:
>>
>> Area 0 (broadcast), 10.0.0.0/27, riverstone-1 ASBR is 10.0.0.1 and
>> mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.2
>> Area 1 (NBMA), 10.0.0.32/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.33 and mikrotik-2 @
>> tower A is 10.0.0.34
>> Area 2 (NBMA), 10.0.0.64/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.65 and mikrotik-3 @
>> tower B is 10.0.0.66
>> Area 3 (NBMA), 10.0.0.96/27, mikrotik-1 ABR is 10.0.0.97 and mikrotik-4 @
>> tower C is 10.0.0.98
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Paul
>>
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