OSPF Area Transit Capability

Last Updated: June 24, 2011

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.

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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

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MIBs

MIB

MIBs Link

None

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http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC

Title

RFC 2328

OSPF Version 2

Technical Assistance

Description

Link

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Feature Information for OSPF Area Transit Capability

The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table 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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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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