First answer: Yes, it needs to be in a separte area.Second answer: I don't think so.To give a little bit more of context, I need a total of 8 areas for 8 different departments. Area 0 being the backbone and having the technology department in area 0 ...

This clears some of my doubts.At the moment there are no plans to have multiple paths added to the new router, but then your answer makes me have one final question. If the network is planning to grow and possibly having multiple paths in new routers...

Thanks for the help! I managed to solved it using static routing.I did try virtual link before and it worked, but when I reopened the file it wasn't doing anything so I was trying an alternative. Anyway, I'll try again with the virtual link but stati...