On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:51:40PM -0400, Bryan Ginman wrote:
> The reason that this is not preferable is that it injects it as a External
> type 2 route with a much higher AD and does not increase its metric through
> the area. This can cause problems in large networks if you are not careful
> and definitely is not as clean. In and of itself this is not necessarily
> "evil", however in large networks with multiple redundant paths, etc this is
> not "best practice" the best practice is to run the IGP on all interfaces in
> the passive state that you do not want to actively participate in IGP
> conversations.
Who said they must be Type2?
Router(config-router)#red stat subn metric-type ?
1 Set OSPF External Type 1 metrics
2 Set OSPF External Type 2 metrics
(Same applies to "connected")
We actively using it in few networks, though carefuly done through the
route-maps. Works fine. As well, it helps keeping unnecessary routing
information out of Stub areas.
SY,
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