Configuring Ospf Nssa - Cisco FirePOWER ASA 5500 series Configuration Manual

Chapter 9 Configuring IP Routing
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The following example shows how to configure the OSPF area parameters:
hostname(config)# router ospf 2
hostname(config-router)# area 0 authentication
hostname(config-router)# area 0 authentication message-digest
hostname(config-router)# area 17 stub
hostname(config-router)# area 17 default-cost 20

Configuring OSPF NSSA

The OSPF implementation of an NSSA is similar to an OSPF stub area. NSSA does not flood type 5
external LSAs from the core into the area, but it can import autonomous system external routes in a
limited way within the area.
NSSA imports type 7 autonomous system external routes within an NSSA area by redistribution. These
type 7 LSAs are translated into type 5 LSAs by NSSA ABRs, which are flooded throughout the whole
routing domain. Summarization and filtering are supported during the translation.
You can simplify administration if you are an ISP or a network administrator that must connect a central
site using OSPF to a remote site that is using a different routing protocol using NSSA.
Before the implementation of NSSA, the connection between the corporate site border router and the
remote router could not be run as an OSPF stub area because routes for the remote site could not be
redistributed into the stub area, and two routing protocols needed to be maintained. A simple protocol
such as RIP was usually run and handled the redistribution. With NSSA, you can extend OSPF to cover
the remote connection by defining the area between the corporate router and the remote router as an
NSSA.
To specify area parameters for your network as needed to configure OSPF NSSA, perform the following
steps:
Step 1 If you have not already done so, enter the router configuration mode for the OSPF process you want to
configure by entering the following command:
hostname(config)# router ospf process_id
Enter any of the following commands:
Step 2
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To assign a specific cost to the default summary route used for the stub area, enter the following
command:
hostname(config-router)# area area-id default-cost cost
The cost is an integer from 1 to 65535. The default is 1.
To define an NSSA area, enter the following command:
hostname(config-router)# area area-id nssa [no-redistribution]
[default-information-originate]
To summarize groups of addresses, enter the following command:
hostname(config-router)# summary address ip_address mask [not-advertise] [tag tag]
This command helps reduce the size of the routing table. Using this command for OSPF causes an
OSPF ASBR to advertise one external route as an aggregate for all redistributed routes that are
covered by the address.
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