Well, if you wanted to have different redistribution methods or parameters 
related to the different processes. Where you usually see different routing 
tables is in VRF. If you wanted to communicate on a different port or unicast 
instead of multicast you can configure that under the different processes. 

On Jun 30, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Alef <[email protected]> wrote:

> I guess i am. Are you saying that different proces id's have access to the 
> same routes? i.e. if i would advertise one thing in one routing process would 
> it be available in the other?
> 
> I always thought the opposite. I knew they were different routing processes, 
> but i also told a aspect of that would be that they would not have access to 
> eachother's databases. If not, what exactly is actually the point of having 
> multiple routing processes if there is no particular difference?
> 
> In RIPng, is 
> ipv6 router rip cisco12 
> 
> also a instance ?
> On Jun 30, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Di Bias, Steve wrote:
> 
>> Hey Alef,
>> 
>> I think you're confusing process ID's with instances, they are different. 
>> 
>> For example in OSPFv2 you could run multiple processes like "router ospf 1" 
>> and "router ospf 2" but with IPv6 you can run different instances, for 
>> example:
>> 
>> Inter s0/0/0
>> Ipv6 addr fd00:BAD:BEAF:BABE::2/64
>> ipv6 ospf 100 area 1 instance 2
>> 
>> So here the process ID is "100" the area is "1" and the instance is "2"
>> 
>> This might help!
>> 
>> "The Instance ID Identifies the OSPF instance to which this packet belongs. 
>> The Instance ID is an 8-bit number assigned to each interface of the router. 
>> The default value is 0. The Instance ID enables multiple OSPF protocol 
>> instances to run on a single link. If the receiving router does not 
>> recognize the Instance ID, it discards the packet. For example, routers A, 
>> B, C, and D are connected to a common link n. A and B belong to an AS 
>> different from the one to which C and D belong. To exchange OSPF packets, A 
>> and B will use a different Instance ID from C and D. This prevents routers 
>> from accepting incorrect OSPF packets. In OSPF for IPv4, this was done using 
>> the Authentication field, which no longer exists in OSPF for IPv6."
>> 
>> From the IETF
>> 
>>  OSPFv3 [OSPFV3] includes a mechanism for supporting multiple
>>  instances on the same link.  OSPFv2 [OSPFV2] could benefit from such
>>  a mechanism in order to support multiple routing domains on the same
>>  subnet.  The OSPFv2 instance ID is reserved for support of separate
>>  OSPFv2 protocol instances.  This is different from OSPFv3 where it
>>  could be used for other purposes such as putting the same link in
>>  multiple areas.  OSPFv2 supports this capability using a separate
>>  subnet or the OSPF multi-area adjacency capability [MULTI-AREA].
>> 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-multi-instance-04 
>> 
>> More from the IETF
>> 
>> OSPFv3  
>> 
>>    Most of the checks for OSPFv3 are similar to that of OSPFv2. The  
>>    main points of differences are: -  
>> 
>>    - OSPFv3 runs on a per link basis instead of a per subnet basis.  
>>      The check for network mask is not done.  
>> 
>>    - Instance ID field (non-existent in OSPFv2) on the link is  
>>      matched with the incoming ID in Hellos. Only if the Instance- 
>>      Id's match do we actually form adjacencies. This allows multiple  
>>      instances of OSPF to run on a single link.
>> 
>> Also check out the following RFC's 
>> 
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5340.txt 
>> 
>> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2740.html
>> 
>> 2.4.  Explicit Support for Multiple Instances per Link
>> 
>>  OSPF now supports the ability to run multiple OSPF protocol instances
>>  on a single link.  For example, this may be required on a NAP segment
>>  shared between several providers.  Providers may be supporting
>>  separate OSPF routing domains that wish to remain separate even
>>  though they have one or more physical network segments (i.e., links)
>>  in common.  In OSPF for IPv4, this was supported in a haphazard
>>  fashion using the authentication fields in the OSPF for IPv4 header.
>> 
>>  Another use for running multiple OSPF instances is if you want, for
>>  one reason or another, to have a single link belong to two or more
>>  OSPF areas.
>> 
>>  Support for multiple protocol instances on a link is accomplished via
>>  an "Instance ID" contained in the OSPF packet header and OSPF
>>  interface structures. Instance ID solely affects the reception of
>>  OSPF packets.
>> 
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Steve Di Bias
>> Network Engineer - Information Systems
>> Valley Health System - Las Vegas
>> Office - 702- 369-7594
>> Cell - 702-241-1801
>> [email protected] 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alef
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:27 AM
>> To: [email protected] IE
>> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] ospfv3 instances vs ospf proces id's ?
>> 
>> I used to think that you can define as many ospf processes as you like, 
>> however on the cisco site it states that "unlike ospf v2, with ospv3 you can 
>> have multiple instances", as if ospv3 is the first to allow this possibility?
>> 
>> is there a difference?
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