FIRST (OSPF)

OPEN SHORTEST PATH

Points to remember:
OSPF is open protocol & is link state protocol.
OSPF supports for VLSM & SUBNETTING.
OSPF uses Dijkstra Algorithm to calculate the best paths.
OSPF uses Cost (inverse of Bandwidth) as a metric.
Sends updates when topology changes.
OSPF is divided into hierarchical designs to minimize the routing
table.
It is divided in Areas & Autonomous System.
Hello packets mechanism is used as well as link state
advertisements packets are used to maintain the topology database.
OSPF supports load balancing of up to six equal-cost paths to a single
destination

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OSPF metric

OSPF uses cost. Cost is actually the inverse of the bandwidth of a link: the
faster the speed of the connection, the lower the cost. The most preferred
path is the one with the lowest cost.
Cost = 10(power 8 ) /bandwidth (bps)
OSPF supports load balancing of up to six equal-cost
paths to a single destination.

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OSPF Hierarchical Routing

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REASONS FOR HEIRACHIAL

DESIGNS
To minimize the routing table.
To speed up convergence.
To confine the LSA flooding to the particular area only.
Minimizes routing updates traffic.

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Configuring Single Area OSPF

Router(config)#router ospf process-id

Defines OSPF as the IP routing protocol

Router(config-router)#network net add wildcard mask area area-i

Assigns networks to a specific OSPF area

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OSPF Configuration Example

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Verifying the OSPF Configuration

Router#show ip protocols

Verifies that OSPF is configured

Router#show ip route

Displays all the routes learned by the router

Router#show ip ospf interface

Displays area-ID and adjacency information

Router#show ip ospf neighbor

Displays OSPF-neighbor information on a per-interface basis

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OSPF debug commands

Router#debug ip ospf events

OSPF:hello with invalid timers on interface Ethernet0
hello interval received 10 configured 10
net mask received 255.255.255.0 configured 255.255.255.0
dead interval received 40 configured 30
Router# debug ip ospf packet
OSPF: rcv. v:2 t:1 l:48 rid:200.0.0.117
aid:0.0.0.0 chk:6AB2 aut:0 auk:
Router#debug ip ospf packet
OSPF: rcv. v:2 t:1 l:48 rid:200.0.0.116
aid:0.0.0.0 chk:0 aut:2 keyid:1 seq:0x0

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& BDR

ELECTION OF DR

The OSPF router with the highest priority becomes the DR

for the segment. If there is a tie, the router with the highest
router ID will become the DR. By default, all routers have a
priority of 1 (priorities can range 0255). If the DR fails, the
BDR is promoted to DR and another router is elected as the
BDR.
When an OSPF router comes up, it forms adjacencies with
the DR and the BDR on each multi-access segment that it is
connected to. Any exchange of routing information is
between these DR/BDR routers and the other OSPF
neighbors on a segment (and vice versa). An OSPF router
talks to a DR using the IP multicast address of 224.0.0.6. The
DR and the BDR talk to all routers using the 224.0.0.5
multicast IP address.
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Loopback interfaces

A loopback interface is a logical, virtual interface on a

router. By default, the router doesnt have any
loopback interfaces, but they can easily be created
from 0 to to 2147483647.
Reasons to create a loopback interface:
1) To assign a router ID to an OSPF router
2) To use for testing purposes, since this interface is
always up

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