At my place of employment, my group has a management network for our devices and switches that we control. This is separate from the management used by the networking team for everything else ...

Enter the OSPF non-broadcast network type. Let’s assume that in our lab today we have a basic frame-relay hub-and-spoke topology with R2 being our hub, and R4, R5, and R6 being our spokes.

Even Jeff Doyle tells me that I should do a little blogging with OSPF. What’s a networker to do with that kind of backing? And a few others expressed some interest as well – in understanding ...

The redistribute command, which might be more descriptively named the “get-routes-from-elsewhere” command, pulls routes into OSPF. To represent those routes, OSPF often times creates a type 5 LSA.

Now, obviously this is a discontiguous network (I'm messing around to try and make stuff work when it ordinarily shouldn't) but OSPF should be able to handle it and EIGRP has the no auto-summary ...

The OSPF Weight Setting Problem represents one of the most significant challenges in network optimization, with far-reaching implications for the future of connectivity.

However, OSPF scales to larger networks, particularly WANs, better than EIGRP. Other Layer 3 routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and IS–IS, aren’t as widely available across ...