Bad OSPF summary routing due to poor IP addressing

The below is a real life example. Due to the poor IP addressing, you will see wrong OSPF summary routing has been added in the routing table under specific condition.

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As RFC 2328 suggests,the metric for summary routes in which the component of the summary route with the maximum / largest metric would determine the metric of the summary.

On Router 1, you will see the two routing has been added into routing table for 10.16.192.0/23.

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FYI:Route summary metric in RFC 1583 

Area border routers then summarize the area contents (for distribution to the backbone) by advertising a single route for each address range.  The cost of the route is the minimum cost to any of the networks falling in the specified range.

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