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 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
