Network Statements Shortcut for the Lazy

Sitting here reading blogs of famous CCIE's, I suddenly became sleepy. Tried some of the labs with lots of interfaces per device and I kinda feel lazy typing the network commands. So I did some of the shortcuts as I may say. I'm the kind of person who always looks for more effective and easier ways to accomplish something the right way. That's why im a fan of command aliases in Cisco routers.:) I'm not sure if this is the right way but it works for me when I'm lazy typing.

Here goes a simple solution to advertise all interfaces in a routing protocol. In this example I am using OSPF.

R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#network 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 area 0

R2(config)#router ospf 1
R2(config-router)#network 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 area 0

These network statements mean to match and advertise any ip segment originating from the router. It seems that using the wildcard mask 255.255.255.255 works also but I prefer the wildcard of 0.0.0.0 because its a lot easier to type. :)

This shortcut works effectively if you are doing your personal lab and at one point became lazy such as me. If you have interfaces that you want to advertise to a certain area, you can always add the network command and presto it will be in a new area. Enjoy but don't stay lazy!