Occasionally automatically encapsulating nodes will be used to upgrade an existing OSI-only area to make it effectively into a dual area. In this case the gateway nodes may have to remain as OSI-only nodes. In such a case a network can be built as shown in Figure III-9.
Figure III-9
In this network the CLNP packets that need to leave the level-1 area continue to go to the OSI level-1,level-2 router. The nodes that have a manual tunnel leading out of the level-1 area advertise this as a default route. Consequently the IP-capable nodes will all add an entry to the bottom of their routing table telling them to send all IPv4 packets to one of the nodes that has the manual tunnel, unless they have a more specific route. In this way an IPv4 packet is never sent to a level-1,level-2 node, but is always sent across one of the manual tunnels.
The router in the Access DCN that terminates the manual tunnel does not need to run Integrated IS-IS. It may run any IP routing protocol that an operator wishes to use. In this way an existing network that uses OSPF and level-2 IS-IS in the Access DCN, and level-1 IS-IS in the SDH NEs may have the level-1 areas upgraded to dual areas with little impact on the existing OSI-only SDH NEs or on the Access DCN.
APPENDIX IV
Bibliography
(This Appendix does not form an integral part of this Recommendation)
IETF RFC 1006 – ISO Transport Service on top of the TCP Version: 3 – May 1997
IETF RFC 2966 – Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS – October 2000
IETF RFC 3147 – Generic Routing Encapsulation of CLNS Networks – July 2001
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