Maria Matejka: > Well, OSPF isn't intended for filtering routes between areas this way. > Guessing from what you have written, it may make sense e.g. to run one > OSPF instance per area, assign each area a BGP private ASN and run BGP > between them.
thanks Maria and Ondrej, after thinking about this, i agree it probably makes more sense to run EBGP between these networks rather than OSPF. so, i'm doing that now and everything is working fine :-) regards, lexi.