Anyone else can give an opinion to those three questions? Thanks. T.
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 at 12:43 AM > From: "Aaron Gould" <[email protected]> > To: "Nick Cutting" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OSPF+BGP and MPLS Q's > > I was waiting for that, lol > > Sort of a long story, as everyone knows, networks usually have a story to > tell in order to understand why they are the way they are.... If many of us > sat back and designed a new network from the ground up, it would be pretty > for a day or two, and then eventually grow into something else .... If you > leave the company and a new guy comes in, he would probably say , "what idiot > designed this network " :/ > > .... Then when he left the company, someone else would come in and say the > same thing about him, lol > > originally I did have a backbone area 0 and a very small MPLS network with > core IGP area 1, ...well, area 1 continued to grow, and area 0 was eventually > decommissioned, and know area 1 remains :) > > ....I guess I could work through maintenance windows and convert everything > to area 0, but I don't feel motivated to do so > > Works fine > > Aaron > > > On Jul 19, 2018, at 5:34 PM, Nick Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Quick question as I am clueless on large SP networks (I'm a MSP guy not an > > ISP guy )- why not area 0.0.0.0 ? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cisco-nsp <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Aaron Gould > > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 6:08 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OSPF+BGP and MPLS Q's > > > > This message originates from outside of your organisation. > > > > If you think your network is going to continue to grow , dual route > > reflector cluster is a huge must have in my mind, I love how you can add > > address families to one neighbor and let it bounce while the other neighbor > > stays up with all your routes still there > > > > I have ran a 100 node single area OSPF (area 0.0.0.1) MPLS/LDP network for > > several years, I believe simplicity and only as much complexity as is > > required for the job > > > > > > Aaron > > > >> On Jul 19, 2018, at 2:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have some practical design questions. > >> > >> 1. Is there a better way of doing the HA than having adjacencies to the > >> router (can be 3 hops away) over two different VLANs and different OSPF > >> cost over trunk links with BFD enabled? > >> 2. Do you find less practical a MPLS network on a multi-area design vs a > >> single-area design? > >> 4. At what point would you introduce RouteReflectors in the network > >> (e.g. when 5, 10, 20 IBGP connections?) > >> > >> Can come up with some more in the meantime ;) > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Ton > >> _______________________________________________ > >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
