so, this is my first foray into dynamic routing and so far i have accomplished a minimum amount of setup in my environment. i have a linux based router running ospf, and two linux servers ...

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 ...

Even Jeff Doyle tells me that I should do a little blogging with OSPF. What’s a networker to do with that kind of backing? And a few others expressed some interest as well – in understanding LSAs ...

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 ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach ...

Westwood, MA–NetPlane systems is looking to improve the high availability capabilities of core router and other comm designs with today's release of a new version of OPTIRoute software solution.

When I set about trying to determine the five most common routing issues I see, I didn''t realize what a challenge it would be to narrow them down. I considered writing about the five most annoying ...