Configuring the Open Shortest Path First Protocol


Overview/Description
To configure Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for a scalable multiarea network

Target Audience
Network engineers responsible for configuring, implementing, troubleshooting, and managing medium-to-large routed networks in an enterprise or service provider environment; network architects responsible for designing networks that support multiple routing protocol types; CCNP, CCDP, and CCIP candidates; CCIE routing and switching candidates

Prerequisites
A good understanding of networking terms, topologies, and the OSI reference model; familiarity with TCP/IP and configuring IP address schemes, including subnetting and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM); experience of operating and configuring Cisco routers for general use and configuring basic routing protocol implementations

Expected Duration
160 Minutes

Objectives:

Configuring the Open Shortest Path First Protocol

  • identify the characteristics and data structure of link-state routing protocols and recall the purpose of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) areas.
  • identify how routers establish adjacencies, and recognize the SPF calculation.
  • recall the concepts and processes of OSPF areas and adjacencies.
  • differentiate between the five Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) packet types.
  • recall how neighbor adjacencies are established in OSPF and recognize the fields of the debug command used to monitor adjacency establishment.
  • configure and verify a basic single area OSPF configuration.
  • outline how OSPF operates over point-to-point and serial links and nonbroadcast multiaccess networks.
  • identify the different OSPF over Frame Relay configuration options and interpret debug output for IP OSPF adjacencies.
  • configure a number of routers into a single area, and identify output from show and debug commands that highlight packet types and the DR/BDR election process.

  • Course Number: 120082_eng