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List:       ms-ospf
Subject:    Re: Active Backbone Area?
From:       "John T. Moy" <jmoy () CASC ! COM>
Date:       1998-11-04 21:15:16
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Bill-
It means interfaces that are up (sending hellos).
They do not necessarily have to have adjacent neighbors.
John

Wollman, William wrote:

> In Section 16.2 of RFC 2328 it states
>        "The inter-area routes are calculated by examining summary-LSAs.
>         If the router has active attachments to multiple areas, only
>         backbone summary-LSAs are examined. "
>
> What is the desired definition of the words "active attachments"?  Does that
> mean fully
> adjacent with at least one neighbor or just sending hellos on the interface
> looking
> for neighbors etc.?  I imagine it should mean fully adjacent.  Some
> questions arose on this
> sentence in discussions here.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
>   Bill Wollman
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