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OSPF ABR for 3 Areas?

I'm reading about OSPF and have a theoretical question: Can a single area border router be used to connect two different areas to the backbone? If it possible, is this considered acceptable design?

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Bob Simon
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You sure can and yes that's an acceptable network design, you want different areas so you can isolate the changes that happen in one area won't triger the OSPF algoritm on another area and have a more stable network. You could put for example an OSPF area for US remote sites and another OSPF area for Latin America that has less reliable circuits.

Bob Sim> I'm reading about OSPF and have a theoretical question:

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jj19

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