[c-nsp] OSPF areas?

[Alex]

You may wish to read expired Internet Draft draft-thorup-ospf-harmful-00.txt 
by Mikkel Thorup (google for it) - see if these thoughts are applicable to 
Your network.
HTH
Cheers
Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent De Keyzer" <vincent at dekeyzer.net>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:22 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] OSPF areas?


> Hello,
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> in a real network, what are the pros and cons of using OSPF areas ?
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> I see the following pros:
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> * reduced routing tables (visually when doing a 'sh ip ro', and in
> RAM) thanks to summarisation
> * reduced CPU usage since route flaps are not seen outside of the area
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> and the following con: additional complexity.
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> Did I forget something?
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> Vincent
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