OSPF Area

Area is used to divide the

database (that is known as
topology in eigrp) of ospf
There area 6 types of area in ospf
1. Backbone area
2. Transit area
3. Stub area
4. Totally Stub area
5. NSSA (Not So stuby area)
6. Totally NSSA
 Stub area
We can configure an area as area 0
This area will no receive
information of LSA4 &
LSA5(Redistributed route)
This concept is designed to reduce
the size of routing table.
(config)#router osfp 3
(config-router)#area 1 stub
on each router of that area
 Totally Stub Area
We can configure an area as to filter
the Lsa3 and LSA4 and LSA5

ABR(config)#router ospf 3
ABR(config-router)#area 1 stub no-
summary

OtherRouer(config)#router osfp 3
OtherRouer(config-router)#area 1
stub
 NSSA
No So Stuby Area
This area is used to filter only LSA 3
According to stub concept it filter the
LSA 4 and 5 and we can filter LSA3
using no-summary command. Thats
why filtering of LSA 5 in nature of stub.
In case of NSSA LSA 5 is converted into
LSA 7 and external routes are entered
into area.
After that area LSA 7 will be converted
in LSA5 back.
 Configuration of NSSA
ASBR(config)#router ospf 3
ASBR(config-router)# Area 1 nssa
no-summary

OtherRouters(config)#router ospf
3
OtherRouters(config-
router)#Area 1 nssa