Acronym for Open Shortest Paths First

An Interior Link State Routing Protocol.

Witness the adventures of a total newbie screwing a clients network completely!

Ok, to get OSPF going first hack zebra.conf and ospfd.conf

The remote stations need stuff like this ;

1. Zebra.conf

# hostname whatever password passwd enable password passwd

router ospf

network 192.168.67.0/24 area 0

# log /var/log/ospd.log

1. end

ONLY advertise networks that this device is responsible for.

Isomer? says to stick everything in area 0, <shrug> so do it his way ok..

PerryLorier: Yeah, because dealing with area's is a bitch, and if you are just learning, stick everything in area 0, when your network gets large enough that convergance times are starting to become a worry, think about different areas then, but before that time, stick everything in area 0 and you'll save yourself a lot of hassle. Also, remember that Area 0 is "special" to OSPF so don't decide to use area 42 or anything instead, It Will Break(tm)

more to follow..

CategoryNetworking