Wednesday, September 5, 2018

OSPF: Redistributing connected routes vs adding internally

Hello everyone,

Just making up a scenario, a router/layer 3 switch with a couple of OSPF enabled uplinks to the rest of the network and a few subnets the device is a gateway for.

There is a requirement to advertise the these subnets to the rest of the network, I could add these subnets to the OSPF area and it'll advertise it within OSPF. I could also just redistribute the connected routes (type-1 to add cost per hop, and be selective with a route map) in OSPF to the rest of the network too.

I 'feel' the better method out of these two would be keeping it internal, and not using redistribution. Would that be right? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to just redistributing connected routes?



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