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OSPF
Special Area
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Objective
• What is OSPF?
• What is area in OSPF?
• What is LSA?
• Why we need special area?
• How special area work?
• How to configure special area OSPF?
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What is OSPF?
• Open Shortest Path First is one of Interior Gateway Protocol,
OSPF uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm.
.1 .2 .2 .3
Backbone high
high high
high
Backbone high
high high
high
Backbone Area 1
R1 R2 R3 R4
RIP
BR BR BR IR
ASBR IR ABR
quiz
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RIP
Ra Rb
R1
Backbone
BR
R2 ASBR R3
Area 1 Area 2 BR
BR
ABR
ABR
R6 R5 R4
IR IR IR
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What is LSA?
• Information that used by OSPF to build a routing table
• There are 6 type of LSA
LSA Type 1 (Router LSA)
LSA Type 2 (Network LSA)
LSA Type 3 (Summary Network LSA)
LSA Type 4 (Summary ASBR LSA)
LSA Type 5 (AS External LSA)
LSA Type 7 (Not So Stubby LSA)
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example of lsa
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OSPF routes
• Intra Area Route
-> The network is in the same area, created by LSA Type 1
• Inter Area Route
-> The network is in the other area, created by LSA Type 3
• External Route
-> The network is in the external network, created by LSA Type 5
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LSA Type x
LSA Type x
LSA Type x
The comparison
Standard Stub
Totally Stub
• Router -> LSA Type 1
• Network -> LSA Type 2
• Summary Network -> LSA Type 3
• Summary Asbr -> LSA Type 4
• AS External -> LSA Type 5
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Virtual Link
• We will never be able to configure stub area in the backbone
area
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192.168.1.2/24
192.168.2.2/24 192.168.3.2/24 192.168.4.2/24
Conclusion
Standard Area Stub Area Totally Stub Area
LSA Type 1 v v v
LSA Type 2 v v v
LSA Type 3 v v one
LSA Type 4 v x x
LSA Type 5 v x x
future reading
• https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Routing/OSPF
• https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:OSPF_Case_Studies#Stub_Area