Tag Archives: OSPF

IPv4 and IPv6 troubleshooting side by side

When you troubleshoot networking issues, you are usually told by most tutors, authors or lecturers, to do it by following the layers of the either layered model i.e. seven layers of the ISO model.

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IPv6 Routing configuration

Keeping things in order First things first. To keep things in order, you need to have some routable IPv6 addresses configured. The link-local addresses will not be routed, so make sure you configure global unicast addresses, otherwise the routeing exercise … Continue reading

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Basic OSPF Configuration

Note: The spelling of the word that describes people who live next to someone is different in British and North American dialect of English. Cisco uses the American spelling in commands and their output. When we talk about a neighbour … Continue reading

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OSPF

The OSPF is link-state routing protocol. Link state protocol is such that the metric is based on bandwidth, load, reliability etc. of a given link as oppose to number of hops between networks.

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