Open socket on OSPF Stub interfaces

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Tue Jul 5 16:04:11 CEST 2011



--On 5 July 2011 14:48:04 +0100 Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:

> On 5 July 2011 14:30, Alex Bligh <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:
>> OK, what I meant was this. Redistribution into an NSSA creates
>> (from memory) type 7 LSAs. I can't do that (or indeed any
>> redistribution) into a stub area, as I'm only permitted
>> LSA types 1, 2, 3 and 4 in a stub.
>
> STUB: No Type 5.
> TSSA: No Type 3/4/5, plus a default summary route.
> NSSA: No Type 5. If Type 5 needed due to redistribution etc, use Type
> 7 and convert to Type 5 at ABR.

Indeed, but TSSA and NSSA do not exist within bird AFAIK, so there
are no type 7s. Hence stub areas have only LSA types 1-4 inclusive,
unless I am missing something.

-- 
Alex Bligh



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