OSPF - OSPF Design and Configuration
Who Needs to Attend
This course is intended for networking professionals who have a need to integrate Cisco’s OSPF protocol into their network. This course is critical to anyone currently running or considering running OSPF.
Prerequisites
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices or its equivalent is required. Several years of network design and administration is a plus.
Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.
The OSPF protocol is the most widely used routing protocol in Cisco® based Intranets. Learn the design principles for developing an efficient and stable network infrastructure.
The course takes an in-depth look at the OSPF protocol as implemented by Cisco. Detailed explanations of protocol handshakes and backbone designed issues are covered. All OSPF Cisco configuration commands are covered with examples in the course book.
Course Outline
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is the most widely used routing protocol used in Cisco-based intranets. This innovative new self-paced package teaches the design principles for developing an efficient and stable network infrastructure. If you are looking for a comprehensive course that will enable you to successfully implement OSPF then this is the course for you.
Title 1: OSPF Overview and Operation
- History of OSPF
- OSPF Concepts
- Autonomous System Areas
- Internal Routers
- Area Border Routers
- Backbone Routers
- Autonomous System Boundary Routers
- Neighbors and Adjacency
- Designated and Backup Designated Routers
- OSPF Networks
- Link State Protocols
Title 2: OSPF Backbone Design and Wide Area Networking
- OSPF Operation
- Identifying Routers
- Building Adjacencies
- Generating the PF Tree
- Diagnosing Network Problems
- Authenticating LSAs
- Troubleshooting
- OSPF backbone Design
- Route Summarization
- Stub Areas
- Totally Stubby Areas
- Not-so Stubby Areas
- Redistribution
- OSPF and WANs
- Non Broadcast Multi-access
- OSPF over On-Demand Links
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