[118316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Maximum devices in OSPF area 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Mon Oct 19 11:49:21 2009
In-Reply-To: <101360.13674.qm@web53608.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:46:44 -0400
From: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@gmail.com>
To: Serge Vautour <serge@nbnet.nb.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Serge Vautour <sergevautour@yahoo.ca>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are looking to deploy a greenfield MPLS network with OSPF as the IGP.
> I'm told OSPF areas don't play well with OSPF TED.
Yep, OSPF-TE uses Type 10 LSAs, which only has an area flooding scope.
> For this reason, we are looking at using only area 0. Only Loopback
> interfaces and p-p core ethernet links will be in OSPF. What are the maximum
> number of Routers & Links that folks would be comfortable with putting in 1
> area? If folks are already using this type of approach, could you share your
> current numbers?
>
I've seen single areas with as many as ~600 routers and as many as 6-7k LSAs
in the LSDB that functioned without any problems.
--
Stefan Fouant
