[c-nsp] OSPF NSSA Question

Dan Armstrong dan at beanfield.com
Fri Sep 10 17:36:14 EDT 2004


I have a question, that may seem rather silly.... but it is driving me nuts.

I have an NSSA area with a few access routers in it.  They are connected via 
Ethernet to 2 distribution layer routers.  The dist routers are advertising 
in a default route, and life is good.

I would like to conserve IP addresses, and I was hoping to put the interfaces 
on the access routers, and the corresponsing interfaces on the distribution 
layer routers all in the same subnet - rather than make a whackload 
of /30nets everywhere.

My problem is that when I do that, the two distribution layer routers form an 
adjacency with each other over the link%$#@#!!

I realize that is "normal" behaviour... but it is not deseriable..

Can I:

-Explicitly force the two dist routers somehow not to form the adjacency?
-Do I just go head and make my whackload of /30nets, and chew up IPs?

It seems to me that this much have come up before....

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Dan.




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