[40614] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OSPF Network design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rizkalla, Simon)
Tue Aug 14 21:22:51 2001
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From: "Rizkalla, Simon" <srizkalla@uecomm.com.au>
To: jan Huizinga <jhui@gdb.com.gr>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:39:00 +1000
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Jan,
Creating 9 different areas might be hard to manage, therfore I
propose that you may want to simplify this by clustering the remote sites
into provinces/states. A book that my collegue and I have been reading in
regards to our OSPF network design has been the Cisco - OSPF Design Guide,
or Designing and Implementing an OSPF network - Cisco.
Regards
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: jan Huizinga [mailto:jhui@gdb.com.gr]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:24 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: OSPF Network design
Hello,
I have a question regarding OSPF design.
I have a customer which has a hub and spoke topology, in the main site the
have 5 routers and every remote site is using 3 routers and a 1/4 class C
addresses. There are 8 remote sites.
They have created for every site an area, so in total 9 areas + an area 0
makes 10 areas. Is this a typical OSPF design? At this moment this network
is a 100% VoIP network (H.323). In the future they want also to give
Internet access to their customers (dial-up and leased lines). The remote
sites are connected with 1MB links, and some of them shall be upgraded to
2MB links.
Any ideas? Or does some one have a good reference to a site or a book that
deals with the designing of a (OSPF) network. I have books about OSPF but
they talk all about the protocol, and don't give real world examples how to
design this.
Thanks,
Jan
