An ABR can connect to many areas in an AS, and is considered a member of each area it connects to.
Autonomous System Border Router (ASBR)
The autonomous system border area router (ASBR) connects to more than one AS and exchanges
information with the routers in other ASs.
Generally, the ASBR connects to a non-interior gate protocol (IGP) such as BGP or uses static routes.
Internal Router (IR)
The internal router (IR) has adjacencies with ONLY routers in the same area, as Router E, M, and I shown
in the previous example.
Designated and Backup Designated Routers
OSPF elects a designated router (DR) and a backup designated router (BDR). Among other things, the DR
is responsible for generating LSAs for the entire multiaccess network.
Designated routers allow a reduction in network traffic and in the size of the topological database.
• The DR maintains a complete topology table of the network and sends the updates to the other
routers via multicast. All routers in an area form a slave/master relationship with the DR. Every time a
router sends an update, the router sends it to the DR and BDR. The DR sends the update out to all
other routers in the area.
• The BDR is the router that takes over if the DR fails.
Each router exchanges information with the DR and BDR. The DR and BDR relay the information to the
other routers. On broadcast network segments, the number of OSPF packets is further reduced by the DR
and BDR sending such OSPF updates to a multicast IP address that all OSPF routers on the network
segment are listening on.
These router designations are not the same ad the router IDs described earlier. The DRs and BDRs are
configurable in Dell Networking OS. If you do not define DR or BDR in Dell Networking OS, the system
assigns them. OSPF looks at the priority of the routers on the segment to determine which routers are the
DR and BDR. The router with the highest priority is elected the DR. If there is a tie, the router with the
higher router ID takes precedence. After the DR is elected, the BDR is elected the same way. A router with
a router priority set to zero cannot become the DR or BDR.
Link-State Advertisements (LSAs)
A link-state advertisement (LSA) communicates the router’s local routing topology to all other local
routers in the same area.
The LSA types supported by Dell Networking are defined as follows:
•
Type 1: Router LSA
— The router lists links to other routers or networks in the same area. Type 1 LSAs
are flooded across their own area only. The link-state ID of the Type 1 LSA is the originating router ID.
•
Type 2: Network LSA
— The DR in an area lists which routers are joined within the area. Type 2 LSAs
are flooded across their own area only. The link-state ID of the Type 2 LSA is the IP interface address
of the DR.
•
Type 3: Summary LSA (OSPFv2), Inter-Area-Prefix LSA (OSPFv3)
— An ABR takes information it has
learned on one of its attached areas and can summarize it before sending it out on other areas it is
connected to. The link-state ID of the Type 3 LSA is the destination network number.
•
Type 4: AS Border Router Summary LSA (OSPFv2), Inter-Area-Router LSA (OSPFv3)
— In some cases,
Type 5 External LSAs are flooded to areas where the detailed next-hop information may not be
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Summary of Contents for Z9000
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Page 491: ...Figure 70 Configuring OSPF and BGP for MSDP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 491 ...
Page 496: ...Figure 73 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 1 496 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 497: ...Figure 74 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 2 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 497 ...
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