December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 40m
English
OSPFv2
Today we start our review of the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol. OSPF is a vendor-agnostic link-state routing protocol that builds and maintains the routing tables needed for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. Today we focus on OSPFv2 (RFC 2328), which works only with IPv4. The most recent implementation of OSPF, OSPFv3, works with both IPv4 and IPv6. OSPFv3 is discussed on Day 24, “Advanced OSPFv2 and OSPFv3.” Both versions of OSPF are open standards and can ...