Re: (ASCEND) Making IGP work on a Max

[Rich Fulton <fulton@veryo.net>]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Matt Holdrege wrote:

> At 11:08 AM 7/16/98 -0700, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> >> If the Max is in it's own area and not a BDR, why would it have 50-200
> >> routes? Why would it see constant changes? Let the BDR's handle all those.
> >
> >Because it still sees all of the external routes.  Each dialin customer with
> >a static IP address generates an external route.  Also, unless you have
> >an area configured as an NSSA, it sees all the non-external routes as well.
> >Not being in the backbone area does not (and shouldn't) prevent this.
> 
> You should be summarizing so that each OSPF router only sees the supernet
> addresses.

In other words, please summarize because multiiple maxen will not be able
to handle the amount of routes.  And then they will reboot due to memory
failures.  Ascend will have to do a little better than "oh you're not
summarizing, that's why they're having trouble."  One should not _have_ to
summarize due to hardware/software limitations.

	/rf

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