Chapter 4

OSPF, BGP, and Route Manipulation

This chapter covers the following subjects:

  • OSPFv2: This section covers metrics and design for OSPFv2 in IPv4 networks.

  • OSPFv3: This section covers metrics and design for OSPFv3 in IPv6 networks.

  • BGP: This section covers metrics, characteristics, and design for BGP.

  • Route Manipulation: This section covers route redistribution and summarization.

This chapter reviews the characteristics of and design issues related to the Open Shortest Path First version 2 (OSPFv2) routing protocol. It also covers version 3 of this protocol, OSPFv3, for IPv6 networks. OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 are link-state routing protocols. They do not broadcast their route tables, as distance vector routing protocols do. Routers using ...

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