Re: description of p2p link in r-LSA

"Manral, Vishwas" <VishwasM@NETPLANE.COM> Tue, 03 September 2002 04:21 UTC

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From: "Manral, Vishwas" <VishwasM@NETPLANE.COM>
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Hi Zhongjie Li,

Acee is right, I did mean option 2 in the RFC. I did not notice it could
create conflict here.

Thanks,
Vishwas

-----Original Message-----
From: Acee Lindem [mailto:acee@REDBACK.COM]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:51 PM
To: OSPF@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: description of p2p link in r-LSA


Manral, Vishwas wrote:

> Hi Zhongjie Li,
>
> 1) The few implementations I know of use option 2.


For the sake of clarification, I believe Vishwas means option 2
as defined in the RFC 2328 (as opposed to Zhonglie's E-mail
where the two options are reversed).


> 2) No, there should be no interoperabilty concerns/problems if the two
ends
> use different options. However in that case we would have a host
route(/32)
> as well as a network route.
>
> Also check the link
>
http://discuss.microsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WA-MSD.EXE?A2=ind9908&L=OSPF&P=R3243&I=
> -3. A similar discussion was on the list a few days back too.
>
> Thanks,
> Vishwas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li Zhongjie [mailto:lzj@CSNET1.CS.TSINGHUA.EDU.CN]
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 9:36 AM
> To: OSPF@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> Subject: description of p2p link in r-LSA
>
>
> Hi,
>
>   For a numbered point-to-point link, a router has two options to declare
a
> stub link <link id,link data>:
>   1) <subnet number, subnet mask>
>   2) <endpoint ip address, all 1's mask>
>   as decribed in RFC2328 section 12.4.1.1 page 130.
>   Two questions to ask:
>   1) what is the mostly widely used option on the current Internet?
>   2) I think different routers in an OSPF area can use different options
> without causing any problems, right?
> ---
> Best Regards,
>
> Zhongjie Li
>
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--
Acee

description of p2p link in r-LSA Li Zhongjie
Re: description of p2p link in r-LSA Manral, Vishwas
Re: description of p2p link in r-LSA Acee Lindem
Re: description of p2p link in r-LSA Manral, Vishwas