Lucent Technologies 6000 User Manual

MAX 6000/3000 Network Configuration Guide

 8-9

This section shows how to add a MAX to your OSPF network. It assumes that you know how 
to configure the MAX with an appropriate IP address, (as described in Chapter 9, “Configuring 
IP Routing.”) 

The procedures in this section are examples based on Figure 8-6. To apply one or more of the 
procedures to your network, enter the appropriate settings instead of the ones shown.

In Figure 8-6, all OSPF routers are in the same area (the backbone area), so the units all form 
adjacencies and synchronize their databases together. 

All OSPF routers in Figure 8-6 have RIP turned off. OSPF can learn routes from RIP 

without the added overhead of running RIP.

The MAX Ethernet interface in Figure 8-6 is in the OSPF backbone area. Although there is no 
limitation stated in the RFC about the number of routers in the backbone area, you should keep 
the number of routers relatively small, because changes that occur in area zero are propagated 
throughout the AS. 

Another way to configure the same units would be to create a second area (such as 0.0.0.1) on 
one of the existing OSPF routers, and add MAX-1 to that area. You could then assign the same 
area number (0.0.0.1) to all OSPF routers reached through the MAX across a WAN link.

After you configure MAX-1 as an IP host on that interface, you can configure it, in the 
Ethernet profile, as an OSPF router in the backbone area. To configure MAX-1 as an OSPF 
router on Ethernet, you need to make sure that the MAX is configured as an IP host and then 
configure OSPF features.