April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
20h
English
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RFC 1586: Guidelines for Running OSPF over Frame Relay Networks
This RFC specifies a set of guidelines for implementing the OSPF routing protocol to bring about improvements in how the protocol runs over Frame Relay networks. The authors show the techniques that can be used to prevent the “fully meshed” connectivity that had been required by OSPF until the publication of this RFC. The benefits of following the guidelines detailed in this RFC allow for more straightforward and economic OSPF network designs. This RFC differs from many of the others in that it does not require changes to be made to the protocol itself but rather the RFC suggests better ways to configure OSPF.
The reason behind this RFC is that OSPF considers Frame Relay (FR) networks ...