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CCNA R&S Question of the Week: Calculate OSPF Cost

By Johnny Bass
December 18, 2015

CCNAQuestionWeek16

Which parameter or parameters are used to calculate OSPF cost on a Cisco IOS routers?

A. Bandwidth
B. Bandwidth and Delay
C. Bandwidth, Delay and MTU
D. Bandwidth, MTU, Reliability, Delay and Load

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Answer: A.

Nowhere in the RFC for OSPF does it define how to calculate cost, just that there is a cost on every interface. If you add up all the costs and cheapest cost wins for best path. Many moons ago it was decided to automate the process and use an auto cost bandwidth reference (a constant) divided by the bandwidth.  The default on Cisco IOS routers is 100,000,000 (100 meg) divided by the bandwidth.  The lowest possible value is 1, therefore any link speed of 100Megabits per second or fast will have the cost of 1.

 

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