[c-nsp] Re: ospf design question

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:50:40PM -0800, Mark Kent wrote:
> I was wondering whether I should trim it to three areas, with area0 in
> the middle.  I'm guessing that with a network this small the
> differences are minor enough that it doesn't really matter how it is
> implemented... right?

Even for 7 sites I'd just stick to a single area 0.

Separate OSPF router processes become interesting if you need to do
prefix distribution filtering (sort of like BGP, yes).  But otherwise,
just "keep it simple".

gert
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