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OSPF Area Transit Capability

Finding Feature Information in This Module

Contents

Information About OSPF Area Transit Capability

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: September 10, 2010

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 software to be compliant with RFC 2328.

Finding Feature Information in This Module

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. 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.

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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

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 forward traffic along those paths rather than using the virtual link or path, which are not as optimal.

For a detailed description of OSPF area transit capability, see RFC 2328, OSPF Version 2, at the following URL:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2328.html

How to Disable OSPF Area Transit Capability

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 capability transit on all areas for a router process.

Additional References

Related Documents

Related Topic	Document Title
Configuring OSPF	"Configuring OSPF" module

Standards

Standard	Title
None	—

MIBs

MIB	MIBs Link
None	To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco software 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	Link
The Cisco Support and Documentation website provides online resources to download documentation, software, and tools. Use these resources to install and configure the software and to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues with Cisco products and technologies. Access to most tools on the Cisco Support and Documentation website requires a Cisco.com user ID and password.	http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html

Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

Not all commands may be available in your Cisco IOS software release. For release information about a specific command, see the command reference documentation.

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

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Note Software images for Cisco 12000 series Internet routers have been deferred to Cisco IOS Release 12.0(27)S1.

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Table 1 Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability 

Feature Name	Releases	Feature Information
OSPF Area Transit Capability	12.0(27)S 12.3(7)T 12.2(25)S 12.2(27)SBC 12.2(33)SRA 12.2(33)SXH Cisco IOS XE 3.1.0 SG	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 software to be compliant with RFC 2328. The following commands are introduced or modified in the feature documented in this module: •capability transit

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