OSPF ABR Type 3 LSA Filtering on Cisco IOS

Hello Chris

If you’ll notice, the L0 interface on R4 with an IP address of 4.4.4.4/32 is in Area 0. This is not shown in the diagram with a colored ellipse, but is shown within the configuration of R4.

The Area 0 of an OSPF network can simply be applied to a single interface, even to a loopback interface, fulfilling the backbone area requirement of OSPF.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz

1 Like