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OSFP Design Considerations for 3-site network across MPLS
Hi Experts,
We have three sites joined by T1s. We are migrating to an MPLS cloud. We currently run OSPF with multiple areas, and our MPLS provider asked us to simplify our OSFP configuration by using a single zone across all sites. From a network perspective, every site will be the same. Starting at the internet and working in, each site will look like this:
Internet --> Internet Provider Router --> Firewall --> LAN Router --> MPLS Provider Router --> MPLS Cloud
We aren't very familiar with OSPF, and we'd like to verify that it's possible to have a single OSFP area (Area 0) across all three sites. The devices participating in this would be:
- Firewall (inside interface)
- LAN Router (all interfaces)
- MPLS ROuter (Lan-side interface)
Note: We plan to inject OSPF into BGP for routing in the MPLS cloud.
Thank you!
We have three sites joined by T1s. We are migrating to an MPLS cloud. We currently run OSPF with multiple areas, and our MPLS provider asked us to simplify our OSFP configuration by using a single zone across all sites. From a network perspective, every site will be the same. Starting at the internet and working in, each site will look like this:
Internet --> Internet Provider Router --> Firewall --> LAN Router --> MPLS Provider Router --> MPLS Cloud
We aren't very familiar with OSPF, and we'd like to verify that it's possible to have a single OSFP area (Area 0) across all three sites. The devices participating in this would be:
- Firewall (inside interface)
- LAN Router (all interfaces)
- MPLS ROuter (Lan-side interface)
Note: We plan to inject OSPF into BGP for routing in the MPLS cloud.
Thank you!
Don Johnston
How many routers and how many networks?
ASKER
We are a small organization. Each site has only one router that we manage (not including the internet and MPLS routers, which we don't manage). And our ASAs (one per site) participate with OSFP. We have about 2 - 5 networks per site.
Then a single area is fine.
ASKER
Thanks! I have a couple of quick follow-ups, if you don't mind.
1.) We'd like all networks on each router to participate with OSPF (we have several networks on subinterfaces). Would the command for this be:
router ospf 1
network 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 area 0
2.) Our current OSPF configuration has "area ranges" defined, such as this:
router ospf 1
area 1 range 192.168.24.0 255.255.248.0
Is this necessary given our small network? Would you advise continuing with this command?
1.) We'd like all networks on each router to participate with OSPF (we have several networks on subinterfaces). Would the command for this be:
router ospf 1
network 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 area 0
2.) Our current OSPF configuration has "area ranges" defined, such as this:
router ospf 1
area 1 range 192.168.24.0 255.255.248.0
Is this necessary given our small network? Would you advise continuing with this command?
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Awesome. Thanks for all your help!