Skip to Content
OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol
book

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

Part II. The OSPF Protocol

In Part II, we discuss the OSPF protocol. We start in Chapter 3, Developing the OSPF Protocol, by discussing why OSPF was developed in the first place and the original requirements and design decisions. We also discuss how OSPF has evolved, first as the result of interoperability testing and Internet deployments and then in reaction to evolution of the Internet itself.

Chapter 4, OSPF Basics, discusses the basic protocol mechanisms of OSPF. Link-state routing was originally designed for networks whose packet-switching computers were interconnected by point-to-point links, and so we restrict ourselves to those topologies. At the core of a link-state protocol is the link-state database, and in Chapter 4, we discuss the ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

OSPF: A Network Routing Protocol

OSPF: A Network Routing Protocol

Phani Raj Tadimety

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0201634724Purchase book