Hi,
I know, that my question is like a "first 2 weeks of CCNA training", but I'm a little bit confused and trying to find th optimal solution.
take a look at the picture
it's quite simple OSPF routing domain with 3 Areas. Let say we'd like to reach a network 10.62.10/24 (on the right side on the picture) from the router PE-69 (on the left side)
on the first glance one would say the traffic should go PE-69 --> P-69 --> PE-621
but in the reality the traffic goes PE-69 --> P-228 -->P-69 --> PE-621, which is not optimal and one hope longer.
I understand why: in short the router PE-69 sees the OSPF information from both P-228 and P-69 router, but P-228 announce the smaller metric (41) for the subnet as P-69 does (101), because P-228 get the information via Area0 but for P-69 it a directly connected Area and according the OSPF rule it should use the "intra-area" path first.
The question is, how should I change the topology in order the get optimal traffic flow? Of cource I could set the OSPF cost on the link PE-69 --- P-228 to let say 100, but then all subnets connected to P-228 to a non-Area0 will be follow the sub-optimal path from PE-69 via P-69 and not directly.
Hi Kishore,
I've update the topology.
the preferd way to 10.62.10/24 from PE-69 is PE-69 --> P-69 --> PE-621
the preferd way to 10.22.8.0/24 from PE-69 is PE-69 --> P-228
Red links are "WAN" links (because the price is per megabyte on those links) and the black are normal LAN. And the goal is to avoid an unnecessary traffic on the red links.
if we look now at the routing path from PE-69 to the sunmet 10.22.8.0/24 (connected to P-228) we see that this path is sub-optinal as wel, it's going the way PE-69 --> P-69 --> P-228, but I'd prefer it will go direclty to P-228.
Kishore Chennupati wrote:
shoudnt the traffic go PE-69->P69->P621-->PE621 and the total metric would be 22??. Hope my calc is correct. its 3.00am ad my vision is a bit blurred.
How about you lower the cost from 100 to say 10 between P69 and PE621 to achieve what you want?
HTH
the P-69 is sending the traffic to 10.62.10/24 directly to PE-621, because a router tries to send the traffic directly into the connected Area if possible, and not via the Area0.
if I change the he cost from 100 to say 10 between P69 and PE621 then I need to change the costs overall in Area0, because the link between P69 and PE621 should be only use as failover with the primary link via P-621.
