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Re: OSPF default-information originate command

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Freedman)
Mon Jul 21 12:50:39 2003

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:56:05 +0100
From: David Freedman <david.freedman@netscalibur.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Well, since you are probably doing this either via the
"default-information originate" command, or via the "redistribute
static" 
command, its always going to be an AS-EXTERNAL route (inter-area),
either type 1 or 2 (depending on what you configure as metric-type).

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Since the route can never 
Simon Brilus wrote:
> 
> Hi - Can anyone inform me, when a Cisco box (in the backbone) is configured
> to inject a default route into 0.0.0.0, is that considered an intra-area
> route or an inter-area route?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Simon Brilus
> Bulldog Communications

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