Chapter 7. Advanced OSPF

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Link-State Advertisements: This section explains how Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) stores, communicates, and builds the topology from link-state advertisements (LSAs).

  • OSPF Stubby Areas: This section explains the method OSPF provides for filtering external routes while still providing connectivity to them.

  • OSPF Path Selection: This section explains how OSPF makes path selection choices for routes learned within the OSPF routing domain.

  • Summarization of Routes: This section explains how network summarization works with OSPF.

  • Discontiguous Network: This section demonstrates a discontiguous network and explains why it cannot distribute routes to all areas properly.

  • Virtual Links: ...

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