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Day 24

Advanced OSPFv2 and OSPFv3

ENCOR 350-401 Exam Topics

Infrastructure

• Layer 3

  • Configure and verify simple OSPF environments, including multiple normal areas, summarization, and filtering (neighbor adjacency, point-to-point and broadcast network types, and passive interface)

Key Topics

Today we review advanced OSPFv2 optimization features, such as OSPF cost manipulation, route filtering, summarization, and default routing. We also look at OSPFv3 configuration and tuning using the newer address family (AF) framework that supports IPv4 and IPv6.

OSPF Cost

A metric is an indication of the overhead required to send packets across a certain interface. OSPF uses cost as a metric. A smaller cost indicates a better path than a higher ...