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OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol
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OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol

by John T. Moy
February 1998
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 7m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol

List of Tables

1.1

Division of IP Address Space by Function

16

1.2

Special-Purpose IP Unicast Addresses

18

1.3

Historical Class Division of IP Address Space

19

2.1

The Routing Table of Figure 1.5’s Router C

28

2.2

RIP Convergence When Subnet 192.1.4/24 Is Added to Figure 2.5

36

2.3

Distance Vector Convergence When Subnet 192.1.4/24 Is Deleted from Figure 2.5

37

4.1

Actions Taken by OSPF Router, Based on LS Age Fields

80

4.2

Link-State Database for Sample Network

84

4.3

Dijkstra Calculation Performed by Router 10.1.1.3

97

4.4

Router 10.1.1.3’s IP Routing Table

98

6.1

Distribution of Area Routing Information, Using Distance Vector Mechanisms

126

6.2

OSPF’s Four-Level Routing Hierarchy

129

7.1

Summary of OSPF Extensions

137

8.1

Summary-LSAs Generated for Segment 10.15.6.0/24 ...

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