August 2005
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area range — router, OSPF
areaarea-idrangeaddress maskno areaarea-idrangeaddress mask
OSPF route summarization
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This command tells the OSPF routing process to summarize selected routes for an area. A single route to the given address is generated, instead of separate routes for the individual networks.
area-id
The area to be summarized.
address
The IP address of the network to summarize.
mask
The mask for the IP address, showing which routes to include in the summary.
The following OSPF configuration summarizes all routes for area 2 into a single route for network 10.0.0.0/8:
router ospf 99 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 2 area 2 range 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0