OSPF areas explained
Jun 7,95OSPF uses areas to simplify administration and optimize traffic and resource utilization. An area is simply a logical grouping of …
Read MoreOSPF neighbor states
Jun 6,95Before establishing a neighbor relationship, OSPF routers go through several state changes (up to eight possible states): 1. Down state – …
Read MoreOSPF neighbor discovery
Jun 5,95Routers running OSPF need to establish a neighbor relationship before exchanging routing updates. OSPF neighbors are dynamically discovered by sending …
Read MoreOSPF overview
Jun 4,95OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is perhaps the most popular link state routing protocol. It is an open standard so …
Read MoreEIGRP manual summarization
Jun 3,95The manual summarization is a process of creating a summary route that will be used to represent multiple routes and …
Read MoreEIGRP auto-summary
Jun 2,95In EIGRP, the auto-summary feature is enabled by default. This means that EIGRP will automatically summarize networks at their classful …
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