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OSPF Area Transit Capability

Finding Feature Information

Contents

Information About OSPF Area Transit Capability

How the OSPF Area Transit Capability Feature Works

How to Disable OSPF Area Transit Capability

Disabling OSPF Area Transit Capability on an Area Border Router

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability

OSPF Area Transit Capability

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First Published: January 27, 2004

Last Updated: May 4, 2009

The OSPF Area Transit Capability feature provides an OSPF Area Border Router (ABR) with the ability to discover shorter paths through the transit area for forwarding traffic that would normally need to travel through the virtual-link path. This functionality allows Cisco IOS XE software to be compliant with RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2.

Finding Feature Information

For the latest feature information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the "Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability" section.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco IOS XE software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Contents

•Information About OSPF Area Transit Capability

•How to Disable OSPF Area Transit Capability

•Additional References

•Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability

Information About OSPF Area Transit Capability

Before using the OSPF Area Transit Capability feature, you should understand the following concept:

•How the OSPF Area Transit Capability Feature Works

How the OSPF Area Transit Capability Feature Works

The OSPF Area Transit Capability feature is enabled by default. RFC 2328 defines OSPF area transit capability as the ability of the area to carry data traffic that neither originates nor terminates in the area itself. This capability enables the OSPF ABR to discover shorter paths through the transit area and to forward traffic along those paths rather than using the virtual link or path, which is not optimal.

For a detailed description of OSPF area transit capability, see RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2.

How to Disable OSPF Area Transit Capability

This section contains the following procedure:

•Disabling OSPF Area Transit Capability on an Area Border Router (optional)

Disabling OSPF Area Transit Capability on an Area Border Router

This task describes how to disable the OSPF Area Transit Capability feature on an OSPF ABR.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. router ospf process-id [vrf vpn-name]

4. no capability transit

DETAILED STEPS

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1	enable Example: Router> enable	Enables privileged EXEC mode. •Enter your password if prompted.
Step 2	configure terminal Example: Router# configure terminal	Enters global configuration mode.
Step 3	router ospf process-id [vrf vpn-name] Example: Router(config)# router ospf 100	Enables OSPF routing and enters router configuration mode. •The process-id argument identifies the OSPF process.
Step 4	no capability transit Example: Router(config-router)# no capability transit	Disables OSPF area transit capability on all areas for a router process.

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to the OSPF Area Transit Capability feature.

Related Documents

Related Topic	Document Title
Configuring OSPF	"Configuring OSPF" chapter in the Cisco IOS XE IP Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Release 2
OSPF commands	Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Command Reference
Cisco IOS master command list, all releases	Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases

Standards

Standard	Title
No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.	—

MIBs

MIB	MIBs Link
No new or modified MIBs are supported by this feature, and support for existing MIBs has not been modified by this feature.	To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS XE releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC	Title
RFC 2328	OSPF Version 2

Technical Assistance

Description

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Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and software image support. Cisco Feature Navigator enables you to determine which Cisco IOS XE software images support a specific software release, feature set, or platform. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

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Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS XE software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS XE software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS XE software release train also support that feature.

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Table 1 Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability 

Feature Name	Releases	Feature Information
OSPF Area Transit Capability	Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1	The OSPF Area Transit Capability feature provides an OSPF Area Border Router (ABR) the ability to discover shorter paths through the transit area for forwarding traffic that would normally need to travel through the virtual-link path. This functionality allows Cisco IOS XE software to be compliant with RFC 2328. The command related to this feature is •capability transit

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