As is the case in many parts of the computing world, computers often use different methods for coming up with an answer than we humans would use. Today, I’ll take a closer look at the OSPF puzzle I ...

Well, at least one of you asked… and I did promise! Next we’ll move on to Type 5 (external) LSAs. (yeeha!) But if you didn’t yet vote for your top requests from Santa for this year, at least relative ...

I got into a bit of an argument today with another engineer about this. The default bandwidth metric in OSPF is 100, so it treats any link 100 mb/s or higher as the same cost of 1. The implementation ...

OSPF is a popular interior gateway protocol, frequently encountered by network engineers. Here's how to get it up and running in a network. Open shortest path first, or OSPF, is a routing protocol ...

In a computer network, the transmission of data is based on the routing protocol which selects the best routes between any two nodes. Different types of routing protocols are applied to specific ...

I have OSPF running between 2 Cisco 2600 routers and a pair of ASA 5510 devices in failover config.<BR><BR>The OSPF is configured on the routers and on the ASA. The ASA is on the receiving end and it ...