[c-nsp] IS-IS Multiarea on 12.2 SR

Pete Templin petelists at templin.org
Mon Nov 9 10:45:28 EST 2009


Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> I'm not questioning your decision, I'm just stating it for the archives
> and for everyone else who has to make this same decision at some point
> in the future: If you have to ask, just don't do it. I see way too many
> people trying to deploy areas with 10 router networks because they read
> somewhere that it was what they were supposed to do to scale, or because 
> people saw it on an exam somewhere.

+1.  I've recently finished a complete overhaul of a 14-router 5-POP 
network that had 6 areas (one for each POP), and had area 0 split into 
two independent areas 0.  Access routers in any POP had no idea that 
access routers existed in other POPs, etc.

pt



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