Welcome back to part 3 about OSPF and external routes.
In this post I will focus on type 7 LSA’s. These are LSA’s thats created within an NSSA area. An NSSA area is, as you may know, an area which is meant as a stub area (no type 4 and 5’s), but will still allow for external routes to be introduced in the area. Instead of having type 5’s, which is not allowed in a stub area, it is allowed to have a special type of LSA called a type 7 LSA.
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