On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:
> I'm just now getting ready to turn up OSPF on our network here, but i'm
> trying to do it as slowly as possible as to minimize possible mistakes.
>
> What i'm looking to do is turn up OSPF on one particular PM3 only for now.
>
> Unfortunately, the PM3 in question is in a seperate /24 as the routers
> ethernet port.
not a problem
>
> I have been informed that cisco's wont do OSPF on secondary addresses,
> correct?
correct
>
> I also have an extra ethernet port on the router, which got me
> thinking. What happens if you plug in two ethernet ports into the same LAN
> on a cisco router? I could setup the e1/0 interface with a primary ip
> address in the same /24 as the ether0 on the pm3 in question. But would
> this cause weird things to happen for the router?
no it wouldn't..........but your ip addressing should reflect your network
topology. Is there a reason the pm3 needs to be in a different /24?
Perhaps this is a good time to change that.
>
> Secondly, assuming i get the first step working and make sure that all is
> well and that the eth0 on the cisco and the pm3 are in the same /24, does
> the /29 that i want to assign a customer over the pm3 need to also be in
> that same /24 or does it not matter. I'm assuming it shouldnt matter what
> /24 the /29 is allocated out of, but i want to double check.
It doesn't matter. So long as the "routers" announcing and listening
have interfaces in the same network then you are ok.
>
> Forgive me for being a newbie, just trying to learn :(
Brian
>
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Brian Feeny (BF304) signal@shreve.net
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