Other OSPFv3 Configuration Settings

The example completes all the review of ICND1 OSPFv3 configuration, while adding that small bit of information about multi-area configuration. The next few short configuration topics take some other OSPF features discussed for OSPFv2 back in Chapter 8 and discuss how to configure those for OSPFv3. And as usual, the details are nearly identical.

Setting OSPFv3 Interface Cost to Influence Route Selection

OSPFv3 works much like OSPFv2 in how it calculates the metric for a route, with some slight differences with the concepts, configuration commands, and verification commands.

To review the concepts, as discussed back in the OSPFv2 chapter (Chapter 8), shortest path first (SPF) on a router finds all possible ...

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