Cisco Systems OL-4580-01 manual 3-18, Configuring Open Shortest Path First OSPF

Chapter 3 Configuring Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

Configuring OSPF on the CSS

The ASBR can perform external route summarization to consolidate multiple routes into a single advertisement. For a CSS, this consolidation is useful when you want to advertise VIP addresses for content as OSPF AS external (ASE) through all OSPF interfaces. Use the ospf advertise command to advertise a route as OSPF ASE through all OSPF interfaces. To stop the advertisement of the route, use the no form of the ospf advertise command (as described later in this section).

Note When using OSPF to advertise a VIP address, do not configure this address on a content rule as a single VIP address when another content rule includes it within its VIP address range. If you do, OSPF may make erroneous advertisement decisions or some rules may appear to have the wrong VIP redundancy state associated with them.

First, before you enter the ospf advertise command, configure the CSS as an ASBR. For more information, see the “Configuring the CSS as an Autonomous System Boundary Router” section.

Define an address range for the ospf advertise command by specifying an IP address and subnet mask that represents networks in the area being summarized. Enter the IP address and subnet mask in dotted-decimal notation (for example, 192.168.128.0 255.255.224.0). You can also enter the mask in CIDR bit-count notation format (for example, /24).

For example, to advertise VIP addresses from 192.168.44.0 to 192.168.44.255, define the range by entering the IP address and subnet mask of 192.168.44.0 255.255.255.0:

(config)# ospf advertise 192.168.44.0 255.255.255.0

We recommend that you use the /32 prefix in the ospf advertise command to specify VIPs individually. Specifying entire subnets does not enable the CSS to make proper decisions on advertising the VIPs. The advertisement must match or fit entirely within a VIP range to make proper decisions. If the OSPF advertise IP address range and the VIP range overlap, or the OSPF advertise range encapsulates (that is, is larger than) or doesn’t match the VIP range, then the route is advertised unconditionally.

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