Re: Area Border routers (ABRs)

Russ White <ruwhite@CISCO.COM> Mon, 30 June 2003 12:35 UTC

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Most of the time, you see two or three, perhaps four, ABR's in an area, no
matter how many routers are in the area itself.

:-)

Russ

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Ameya Pandit wrote:

> Hello :
>
> Had a question on number of ABR in an area. What is the typical ABR number
> for a particular network, is it a percentage of N, where N is the total
> number of routers in an area. ? .. how do we hit upon a particular value for
> ABRs?
>
> any pointers are helpful.
>
> rgds
> ameya
>
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Area Border routers (ABRs) Ameya Pandit
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