RE: [nsp] how to fool the SPF in OSPF?

From: Martin, Christian (cmartin@gnilink.net)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 16:07:32 EDT


This bit me a while back. I was trying to build a nice, "scalable",
multi-area network. The reasoning was that it was world-wide, with some
slot routers and WAN links. Enterprise networks are always painful in the
end when trying to engineer isp-like ideas into them...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlewis@lewis.org [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:52 PM
> To: Martin, Christian
> Cc: 'Chris Davis'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] how to fool the SPF in OSPF?
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Martin, Christian wrote:
>
> > Cisco is supposed to be developing a knob to make OSPF look
> at cost only.
> > IS-IS has had success with this idea recently.
>
> I really didn't expect this to be rocket science, but it
> looks like I've
> run into a limitation/weakness in OSPF.
>
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